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Ukraine is a popular choice for couples in the U.S. and other countries in need of a surrogate. Here's why — and how Russia's attack is impacting Ukraine's thriving surrogacy industry.
The ongoing war and Russian invasion of Ukraine has not stopped the surrogacy industry. [123] From the beginning of the invasion in February 2022 to July 2023 more than 1,000 children have been born in Ukraine to surrogate mothers. [123] 600 children were born at the BiotexCom clinic in Kyiv, one of Europe’s largest surrogacy clinics. [123]
Commercial surrogacy is legal in Ukraine with an estimated 2,000 children born each year for foreign parents, with Ukrainians seeing it as a lucrative opportunity as the pay can be more than the countries average annual salary. [54] However, due to the war surrogate mothers in Ukraine have reported significant issues caused by the invasion.
Putin's idea of defending Russian speakers in Ukraine is absurd on many levels, but one of them is this: people can say what they like in Russian in Ukraine, but they cannot do so in Russia itself." [ 320 ] In August 2014, BBC News stated that Ukrainian coverage depicted Russia in a "negative light but language has been restrained in comparison ...
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
27 April: Ukraine launched a drone wave attack in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, starting fires at the Ilsky and Slavyansk-on-Kuban oil refineries. The Kushchyovskaya airbase was also attacked. A number of KAB glide bomb kits were reportedly destroyed along with possibly one Su-34.
Ukrainian troops first burst through Russia's border last week, taking Russia by surprise. Ukrainian forces have said they captured as many as 74 settlements in Kursk, spanning some 380 square ...
The majority of Ukrainian labor trafficking victims were men exploited in Russia, the Czech Republic and Poland, primarily forced to work as construction laborers, sailors, and factory and agriculture workers. There were indications Ukraine is a destination for people from neighboring countries trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation.