Surrogate babies wait out war in makeshift bomb shelter

Nanny Svitlana Stetsiuk plays with one of the babies born to surrogate mothers in the nursery in Kyiv, Ukraine (Rodrigo Abd/AP)

At a makeshift basement bomb shelter in Ukraine’s capital, at least 20 babies born to surrogate mothers are waiting for their foreign parents to be able to travel to the war-torn country and take them home.

Some just a few days old, the infants are well cared for, but even below ground the blasts of occasional shelling can be heard clearly.