More than 100 babies born to surrogate mothers have been stranded in Ukraine as their foreign parents cannot collect them due to border closures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said.
Ukraine's borders were closed in March as a result of the virus outbreak. "In total, more than 100 children in Ukraine are waiting for their parents in various medical centres," Ukraine's Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova told reporters.
That number will grow the longer the lockdown is extended, she said. Ms Denisova said that 51 newborns were being housed at a Kiev hotel, which is owned by one of the clinics in the capital.