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 capitol.
This is “Operation Gemini,” named for the American twins he’s been tasked with evacuating.
Across the border in Poland, their father Alex Spektor is waiting to meet his babies who were born via surrogate. His voice is thick with emotion and fatigue as he relays the latest over the phone.
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