Ukraine, Feb. 18 -- Two-month old Damir has only been bathed twice in his life: once in the hospital, and once on a rare day when electricity briefly returned.
"We use wipes now because it's very cold," says Damir's mother Kateryna Murashkina. "The room doesn't warm up in time to bathe him. I'm afraid of giving my child a cold."
Kateryna and Damir live in a former scientific institute in Dnipro, Ukraine, that was repurposed as a shelter in 2022, and is where Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams now provide medical consultations for residents. Around 270 people displaced from occupied areas or destroyed cities now live there. Repeated strikes by Russian forces on energy infrastructure mean residents endure days wi...
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