Fear, darkness, and newborn babies: Inside Ukraine’s underground shelters 

Fear, darkness, and newborn babies: Inside Ukraine’s underground shelters 

A refugee who fled the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine rests in a school building in Przemysl, Poland. Picture: AP Photo/Petr David Josek

In the bunkers and underground tunnels of Kyiv, life continues underground, even as explosions sound overhead.

Teens sit glued to iPhones, parents tuck quilts around their children to sleep. Some hold pets, while others sit in darkened, unmoving subway cars. And babies arrive. In one shelter in Kyiv, a woman gave birth to a girl, Mia.

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