3 days ago
- Health
- Wall Street Journal
Her Husband Went Missing Fighting Russia. She Is Still Trying to Have His Baby.
LVIV, Ukraine—On brief leave from fighting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, soldier Petro Kotovych's wife, Maria, rushed him to a fertility clinic here.
The couple had struggled to have a baby and undergone five rounds of IVF before the war. Now, with Petro drafted into the Ukrainian army and Moscow's forces posing an existential threat to the country, their personal battle to conceive seemed more urgent.