Svitlana Morenets Svitlana Morenets

How Ukraine plans to revive its birth rate

A technical specialist, Maryna Astemenko, at the IVmed fertility centre in central Kyiv [Getty Images] 
issue 30 March 2024

Svitlana Morenets has narrated this article for you to listen to.

In my village in Ukraine, there aren’t many families left intact. The funerals of those who have been killed in the war have been taking place with crushing regularity. It feels like everyone’s loss. Today, in house after house, you can find parents whose children have either died or are still fighting with no indication of when they may return.

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