A set of American premature twin brothers born in a hospital eight weeks early are now safe in after being evacuated from the war in incubators by a US military veteran and team of medical experts in an extraordinary mission dubbed operation Gemini. Lenny and Moishe Spektor were born on February 25th - hours after Putin launched his first assault on Russia - in a children's hospital in Kyiv. The hospital floor they were delivered on no longer exists: it was shelled days after they were moved to a different facility. The boys, who weighed 4lbs each when they were born, are the sons of Sasha Spektor and his wife. Sasha, 46, was born in Ukraine but emigrated to as a Jewish refugee in 1989. He now teaches Russian literature at The University of .
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