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In the delivery rooms at 1st City Clinical Maternity Hospital, windows are blacked out due to the threat of air raids by Russian forces. As Taisiia pushed mightily, willing new life into the world, the lives of hundreds of children had already been lost. The city of Kharkiv was heavily damaged by the Russian army, and the city of Kherson occupied. Corpses-including those of children and babies-lay in the street and on the cold floor of a makeshift morgue in a hospital basement there. In the southern port city of Mariupol, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped, under siege by Russian forces, with limited food and water. They hit a civilian apartment block while Taisiia was in labor, killing five residents. More than three hundred miles away, in Kyiv, the capital of her country, Russian troops were attacking harder and more ruthlessly each day.
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Five nurses and a doctor encouraged her, told her to breathe, to keep pushing another person’s child into the world. With a black T-shirt and colorful blankets bunched around her, black plastic covering the windows behind her to hide the hospital’s lights, she heaved her way through her final moments of labor. She is blond and blue-eyed, and her dark, tattooed eyebrows were knit together in concentration and pain. In the early hours of the 21st day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Taisiia Zyma gripped the edges of her hospital bed in Lviv, her pink gel nails digging into her palms.