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Shelling, bomb shelters, fear: This is what it’s like to be a pregnant woman in Ukraine right now

Those who can will flee. But others simply cannot leave, forced to give birth in bomb shelters without any medication.

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FILE - Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The Russian airstrike on a children's and maternity hospital in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is the latest in a series of attacks that has gutted apartment blocks and killed people in their homes or simply going about their business. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

The West closes in on Russia’s last lifeline

The United States and Europe have pummeled Russia with unprecedented sanctions over the past several weeks.

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Logos: Ukraine flag.

Putin has already invaded Ukraine. These countries fear they’re next

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 21, 2022. Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on high alert Sunday, Feb. 27, amid tensions with the West over his invasion of Ukraine. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Subway stations become makeshift bunkers as people flee Ukrainian capital

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People walk in a subway to get a train as they leave the city of Kyiv.

‘Putin chose this war - and now he and his country will bear the consequences’: Biden

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CRIMEA, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 24, 2022: An armoured vehicle moves across the town of Armyansk, northern Crimea. Early on February 24, President Putin announced a special military operation to be conducted by the Russian Armed Forces in response to appeals for help from the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Sergei Malgavko/TASS (Photo by Sergei Malgavko\TASS via Getty Images)

Ukraine to introduce state of emergency as citizens warned to leave Russia immediately

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Service members of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces take part in tactical drills at a training ground in an unknown location in Ukraine, in this handout picture released February 18, 2022. Press Service of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.