Ukrainian nurse Oksana Martynenko is looking after 21 babies - all of them surrogates whose parents cannot come to collect them because of the war. All the while she has her own family to worry about
All the while she has her own family to worry about. Her children are in the region around Sumy, a city some 200 miles east of the capital which has been bombarded by Russian forces.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com"We haven't been able to get home since Feb. 24," she told Reuters on Tuesday, as she changed one of the baby's diapers.
"It is not their fault that it happened," she said of the babies in her care. "It is not their fault that parents cannot come to take them. So we stay here, we are coping and helping them with what we can." The practice has raised concerns among rights groups and some former surrogate mothers over the physical and psychological cost of the process and the risk of exploitation of women and their babies in poorer countries.
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