Twin boys Lenny and Moishe were born just as Russia invaded Ukraine. A specialist team of U.S. Army veterans hatched a desperate plan to bring them into Poland and, hopefully, to safety.
RZESZOW, Poland — 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.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.
Spektor was born in Kyiv when it was part of the Soviet Union, and his family came to the U.S. as refugees. Bryan Stern says his company, Project Dynamo, has received more than 14,000 requests for help from inside Ukraine. "If dust gets in the room, they're in trouble. If the power goes out in the room, they're in trouble. If there's a whole bunch of shot-up troops and the doctors get spread thin, then they're going to be in trouble. So the bottom line is getting out of Kyiv," he says.
"We are at the border," Stern says."My blood pressure will finally be able to go back to normal once we get rid of this precious cargo."On the Polish side of the border, Spektor links up with the convoy and finally meets his tiny twins. From there, it's another one-hour drive to the hospital in the Polish town of Rzeszow. An unseasonal snowstorm has just hit, blanketing the roads in white and making it hard to see at night.
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