Jeanette Jalil
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And you didn't want to do that.
And you wouldn't tell your men to do that either.
You saw, in some cases, when people said no, they were shot, or they had their cash cards taken away from them.
And you thought that was just happening where you were, but it was happening more widely to other soldiers in the Russian army.
How does that make you feel about the country that you were fighting for?
What I feel about my country?
No, I think...
Russia is not Russia anymore.
Dima, a former Russian army medical officer.
For the first time here in the UK, a baby has been born to a mother who received a womb transplant from a dead donor.
The boy is called Hugo.
His mother, Grace Bell, says that after years of believing that she would never have a baby, Hugo was simply a miracle.
It's been a long journey, if I'm honest.
Now, 16 years ago, I was told that
I could never carry my own baby.
And that was final.
There was nothing in the world that could have solved that.
I was diagnosed with something called MRKH syndrome, which meant my uterus was in two halves.
So all this time, it was always surrogacy or adoption.
Me and Steve actually decided to go down, initially down the route of then surrogacy.