Posted on Mar 9, 2022
A rescue team evacuates premature American twins from Kyiv in a daring mission
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It's 9:15 a.m. and Bryan Stern is waiting outside a Kyiv hospital. The sound of shelling in the distance forces him and his team to hurry. They need to get two premature babies into an ambulance and out of the besieged Ukrainian capital.
This is Operation Gemini, named for the American twins he has been tasked with evacuating.
It's 9:15 a.m. and Bryan Stern is waiting outside a Kyiv hospital. The sound of shelling in the distance forces him and his team to hurry. They need to get two premature babies into an ambulance and out of the besieged Ukrainian capital.
This is Operation Gemini, named for the American twins he has been tasked with evacuating.
A rescue team evacuates premature American twins from Kyiv in a daring mission
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I've wondered, recently if my sister might have been born in Russia (USSR). Probably not, but it would not be impossible. The family adopted both my sister and brother as infants (a year apart) - closed adoptions nearly 50 years ago through a physician. Little information was provided about the biological parents - health and ethnicity mostly. She was born healthy but it was 10 days before she could be brought home from the hospital - our brother after five days. She is Italian French and Russian. It never occurred to me that she may not have been born in U.S. Don't know if the folks would have known either.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Across the border in Poland, their father, Alex Spektor, is waiting to meet his babies, who were born via a surrogate. His voice is thick with emotion and fatigue as he relays the latest over the phone.
"They've been on the road for about six hours, and they have five more hours after that," he says.
"They will be put into the NICU immediately. We don't want to slow down that process."
His twin sons, Lenny and Moishe, were born premature 10 days earlier in Kyiv, just after Russia began its attack on Ukraine.
They were too small to move in the days after they were born into a war zone. But as they grew stronger, Kyiv grew weaker. Now, they are making the run for the border with Stern and his specialist evacuation team of U.S. Army veterans.
It's a treacherous journey that will include Russian shelling, complex border crossings and a snowstorm."...
..."Across the border in Poland, their father, Alex Spektor, is waiting to meet his babies, who were born via a surrogate. His voice is thick with emotion and fatigue as he relays the latest over the phone.
"They've been on the road for about six hours, and they have five more hours after that," he says.
"They will be put into the NICU immediately. We don't want to slow down that process."
His twin sons, Lenny and Moishe, were born premature 10 days earlier in Kyiv, just after Russia began its attack on Ukraine.
They were too small to move in the days after they were born into a war zone. But as they grew stronger, Kyiv grew weaker. Now, they are making the run for the border with Stern and his specialist evacuation team of U.S. Army veterans.
It's a treacherous journey that will include Russian shelling, complex border crossings and a snowstorm."...
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