On Sunday, Ukraine will mark its second Mother’s Day since Russia’s full-scale invasion began
Olena Mokhonko, a doctor and obstetrician, has delivered babies throughout the war in her home city of Chernihiv, Ukraine.One of Mohenko’s four patients, Nina, gave birth to her daughter Yulia in a hospital corridor. This was a relative luxury at the time, she recalls. When the missiles began raining down on the hospital, the women had to be lowered into the basement bomb shelter. “It was pure horror,” Nina says. “Babies were crying, women were giving birth.
Another patient, Kateryna, gave birth to her daughter Sofia in the bunker that same night. “We spent the first hours of her life underground,” she recalls. Though she and her daughter were discharged the next morning, what awaited them outside the hospital was no different. Kateryna says she hid in her sister’s basement with her newborn for three days, with no heat, light, or water. “I had to find food for the baby somewhere, because I had no milk.
For Iryna, who gave birth to her daughter Amelia via Cesarean section in a cupboard turned makeshift operating theater, the war had already left an indelible mark on her life. Just two days before Amelia’s birth, her husband, Serhiy, was killed trying to defend their city. “Amelia was my salvation,” Iryna says. “If it weren’t for her, I don’t know how I would have survived everything; only she gave me the strength to live on.
Nina and her children enter the family’s basement where they have sheltered from bombing in Chernihiv.Stocked shelves in the basement where Nina and her family have sheltered from bombing.Kateryna with her two children on her daughter’s 1st birthday in Ivanivka, Ukraine.Serhii Korovayny—UNFPA UkraineMaryna shares pictures taken during the war since Diana’s birth.Serhii Korovayny—UNFPA UkraineA playground in the snow near Iryna’s home in Chernihiv.
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