The air raid alert in Kyiv was live during Alyona Bohatyrenko's labor. ‘I gave birth during an air alert!’ she beamed, one of several women to brave strikes to have their children at the Ukrainian hospital. Lucy Fielder has more ▻ ↧ On a Kyiv maternity ward, babies are born during air raids It's a challenging time in Kyiv to bring a child into the world. As air raid alerts sound in the Ukrainian capital, new mothers shrug off the risk, but worry about their babies' future.