Posted on 11/07/2026 7:43:02 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Alyona’s waters broke in her hometown of Kramatorsk, 10km from the front line. The city has no functioning maternity ward, so an ambulance took her to Sloviansk, a short drive under a canopy of anti-drone netting.
Complications then forced her to make an hours-long trip to Kharkiv, where on October 8th she gave birth to a son. That hospital had its dangers too: during air raids mothers and newborns are rushed to a bunker. But it was safer than Kramatorsk, where on the same day a Russian bomb killed 30 people.
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Ukraine’s larger risk right now is being gobbled up by an imperialistic Putin.
She would be smart to get the hell out of there unless she wants her son to grow up to be a soldier.
Great opportunity for all of those migrants still moving towards europe.
Risks? LOL. The demographic collapse has happened. And its not coming back
Don’t worry though - Brussels and Davos have had a plan all along to repopulate the country with Arabs, South Asians and Africans
This kind of globalist central engineering of an entire nation under their control is their DREAM.
Life is tough when your country is the peak corrupto-crat center.
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