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As the war between Russia and Ukraine approaches its eighth week, the DYNAMO project has managed to continue with missions to evacuate groups of people who are most at risk.
Five surrogate mothers carrying children to American parents were among 60 people recently evacuated by the rescue organization. They are currently in a “safe place” in Ukraine, codenamed Club DYNAMO.
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“We are just relieved that these missions were successful and everyone involved was safely out of danger,” said Brian Stern, co-founder of Project DYNAMO, in a statement.
Mothers and others have been evacuated from Ukrainian cities under attack, including Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kakhovka, according to a press release from Project DYNAMO.
“As indiscriminate attacks, injuring and killing dozens of civilians, increase, these rescues of civilians, including pregnant surrogates, are becoming even more urgent and difficult given the dynamic environment of threat,” he continued.
Five surrogate mothers carrying children to American parents were among the 60 people evacuated by Project DYNAMO during its fifth Aquarius rescue operation. (Courtesy of Project DYNAMO)
The DYNAMO project reports that members of its volunteer team have conducted five successful rescue operations to remove Ukrainian surrogate mothers from dangerous war zones.
The organization gave a code name to these Aquarius rescue operations, which Project DYNAMO created after the success of its rescue mission Gemini in March, when three babies were evacuated from Kyiv.
At Club DYNAMO, rescued surrogate mothers can stay in a “safe place to stay” or another safe place of their choice.
Two of these rescued babies are premature twins named Lenny and Moishe, who were born to a surrogate child. This experience opened the eyes of many to the needs of Ukrainian surrogate mothers.
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Ukraine is a popular destination for surrogacy for foreign parents. This is a commercialized industry in the Eastern European country; the cost of the alternative method of reproduction is generally seen as more affordable, FOX Business reported in mid-March.
The DYNAMO project saved 60 people over the weekend, a new press release revealed. The evacuees were escorted to a safe area in Ukraine called Club DYNAMO. (Courtesy of Project DYNAMO)
So far, Project DYNAMO has rescued and reunited more than a dozen surrogate babies with their intended parents living in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The non-profit rescue organization said more than 100 surrogates had applied for evacuation assistance from battle zones, including Mariupol, a southern port city that made headlines after a Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity and children’s hospital.
The DYNAMO project describes its team members as “humanitarians”. Many of them are “current and former members of the US military.”
At Club DYNAMO, rescued surrogate mothers can remain in a “safe place to stay” or other safe place of their choice while giving birth and are “legally” allowed to leave Ukraine, according to Project DYNAMO.
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The other evacuees rescued by the DYNAMO Project during its last Aquarius rescue mission included 40 children and 15 adults. It was reported that it took 30 hours to rescue all evacuees from their places.
The DYNAMO project describes its team members as “humanitarians”. It says many of them are “current and former members of the US military” who have experience in “special operations and intelligence communities”.
The other evacuees rescued by the DYNAMO Project during its last Aquarius rescue mission included 40 children and 15 adults. (Courtesy of Project DYNAMO)
The organization said it had rescued more than 400 people from “war-torn, contested and Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine” – and “transported them safely to neighboring countries”.
He saved people in need from the start of the war that began on February 24, 2022.
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The nonprofit has received more than 15,000 requests for evacuations from around the world in connection with the war between Russia and Ukraine, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Romania, Nigeria, Mexico and Afghanistan.
The DYNAMO project accepts evacuation requests from projectdynamo.org and also recommends that people send evacuation requests to the US Department of State’s Intelligent Traveler Registration Program (STEP).
The privately run and donor-funded rescue organization is named after Operation Dynamo.
This was the code name used during Dunkirk’s evacuation operations during World War II in 1940.
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More than 4.8 million Ukrainians have fled the country, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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