Crisis also affects ‘industry’ of surrogacy: “Our baby is in a bunker in Kiev. How do I get there?” † War Ukraine and Russia

“If your child is in a burning building, don’t you run in and save your own flesh and blood?” asks an Australian couple who hired a Ukrainian surrogate mother. They are not alone, as the practice is a veritable industry in Ukraine, which has been badly hit by the Russian invasion. Hundreds of families and surrogate mothers can only wait in terror as rockets rain down and their promised babies are trapped in bomb shelters.