“War smells — of unborn children and born roads.”

Until 2022, the world had never conducted global research on the effects of war on the perinatal period. Today, in 2025, medical observations clearly show that in areas of active armed conflict, women face a significantly higher risk of stillbirths and miscarriages — especially in zones of intense fighting.
Stress, prolonged air raid alerts, lack of diagnostics and proper care. The destruction of medical infrastructure, maternity wards, and clinics. Terrifying news, the pressure of uncertainty, forced displacement, malnutrition, psychological and physical exhaustion — all of these factors multiply the risk of pregnancy loss.

In Ukraine, these numbers have increased: miscarriages are up by 10–15%, and the overall situation is nearly twice as severe as pre-war and regional statistics.

However these cold, abstract figures lie billions of kilojoules of energy from individual women — each one preparing to give life to her child. Each one dreaming that her baby will find a place in a world already filled with others — children who have already been born.

“4.5.0” is a military code for calm — a fragile calm, almost impossible to hold on to when you’re carrying new life inside you, amid war.

Despite everything, nothing can stop the nature of time — the time that has come, and the time that has passed.