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Pregnant woman prevented by Russians from going to a hospital, forced to have birth monitored online.

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Local Mykolaiv official Maksym Beznosenko said that the woman was threatened at gunpoint by Russian occupiers when attempting to seek medical assistance at a nearby hospital while in labor on March 11. The childbirth was instead monitored by an obstetrician through a video call.

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