We are still overwhelmed by this beautiful meeting which took place this Thursday in the 16-19 from France Blue Mayenne, program presented by Cédric Ruiz. Little Mila, born to surrogacy in kyiv, Ukraine three weeks ago, spent a few minutes in our studios with his parents who live in Arquenay. The family managed to escape war, chaos, a long journey to return home. Today, Mila’s mum and dad are fighting for their child to have a legal existence, which is not yet the case.
The baby sleeps peacefully in a stroller, finally peace, serenity says Manuella, Mila’s mother: “The first days were long, very long. At first, we didn’t know there was a bunker under our building. We put the mattress in the kitchen, that’s how we lived our first night of bombings”. Then there is the hasty departure from kyiv with a convoy organized by the French Embassy to Poland: “We met all these Ukrainians who were leaving with a plastic bag as a way of life. It was the most terrible, it’s difficult to live with because you only learn about the exodus in books”.
– G. Treille
The couple are now fighting for Mila to have a legal and legal existence in France. Absence of a birth certificate, a document which could not be established in time in Ukraine: “impossible therefore for heaps of registrations, no possible bank account or identity document. We are fighting so that she can have a legal existence and so that we can have a normal life with Mila”.
The surrogate mother, a young Ukrainian woman, she lives in a town three hours drive from the capital kyiv. She is fine, stays in touch with the Mayenne couple and Mila, and does not currently intend to leave his country.