Two American babies born to a surrogate mother who had fled the conflict in Ukraine before giving birth in St. Petersburg, were evacuated Tuesday from an orphanage in this Russian metropolis and returned to their American parents, the NGO responsible for the operation.
The twins, a boy and a girl, were “rescued” this Tuesday after Project Dinamo’s first mission in Russian territory, according to a statement from the organization, created by ex-military personnel in 2021 to help in the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies during war. the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The children were not kidnapped, but evacuated through “contacts” in Russia, said Peter D’Abrosca, a spokesman for the Tampa, Florida-based NGO.
The surrogate mother lived in Donbass, one of the regions of Ukraine hardest hit by the war. Due to the fighting, she first reached Crimea before arriving in St. Petersburg, where she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in early September, according to the press release.
The babies were sent to an orphanage in the city and the parents, a couple from Texas who requested anonymity, have since tried to get them back, to no avail.
The NGO to the rescue of parents
The parents then contacted the NGO and one of its co-founders, Bryan Stern, traveled to Estonia to set up the mission from the town of Narva, on the border with Russia. The statement did not specify how the extraction of the babies was carried out, stating only that “the mission took a week to set up and was completed in one day.”
Quoted in the press release, Bryan Stern “profoundly thanked” the consular services of the US embassies in Moscow and Tallinn, without further details. Asked about the help provided by the US embassies, the NGO spokesman contented himself with replying that they had “played a role”.
The US State Department, questioned, did not deny. “We are aware of this information,” said a spokesman for US diplomacy.
“For privacy reasons, we will not comment further at this time.”
US citizenship is automatically granted to children of US couples born abroad to surrogate mothers or by in vitro fertilization, as long as at least one parent is biologically related to the baby.
Source: BFM TV
