In the besieged city of Kharkiv, Polina is fighting for her life.
She’s only five days old, and weighed just less than one-and-a-half pounds [just over 600 grams] when she was born.
Premature births like Polina’s have shot up since the war here began, according to Iryna Kondratova, director at the clinic where Polina was born.
“Infections, lack of medical help, bad nutrition: war creates a risk of premature birth,” she said.
Early deliveries now account for 50% of all births at her clinic.
Not all hospitals across Ukraine are reporting a rise, but at the maternity hospital in Lviv, which has seen a recent influx of mothers from conflict zones, premature deliveries have doubled, from one in ten, to one in five.
The hospital has begun building a special underground bunker to house the babies in intensive care, in the event of air strikes.
Source: BBC