The Economist
Ukraine’s war risks a demographic collapse
Birth rates are plunging and Russia is celebrating
Anorther apartment building hit by Russian bombs goes up in flame in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
Alyona’s waters broke in her hometown of Kramatorsk, 10km from the front line. The city has no functioning maternity ward, so an ambulance took her to Sloviansk, a short drive under a canopy of anti-drone netting. Complications then forced her to make an hours-long trip to Kharkiv, where on October 8th she gave birth to a son. That hospital had its dangers too: during air raids mothers and newborns are rushed to a bunker. But it was safer than Kramatorsk, where on the same day a Russian bomb killed 30 people.
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Source: Der Standard
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