It is 6:00 pm when the sinister wail of the air raid siren sounds over Mykolaiv. Calmly, their hands resting on their bellies, expectant mothers-to-be slowly descend the two floors that lead to the underground bunker of the maternity hospital Number 3. Seven women at the ward are scheduled to give birth soon in a city where war broke out without warning and in a country where several maternity hospitals have already been attacked since the Russian invasion began.

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