There are now three deaths for every birth in Ukraine, says the Guardian's Liz Cookman who visited three frontline hospitals to hear from new and expectant mothers. Russia's systematic targeting of medical facilities, including 81 maternity units, since the beginning of the war is adding, along with displacement and deaths on the battlefield, to the Ukrainian demographic crisis as women are too scared or traumatised to have children

‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine