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global affairs editor John Lyons in Kyiv and Erin Handley

After fleeing war in Ukraine last year, these Australian teachers have now returned to Kyiv

A little over a year after Rachel Lehmann Ware and her husband, Duncan Ware, fled Ukraine, the Tasmanian teachers have now returned to Kyiv.

They were teaching at an international school in the Ukrainian capital when Russia invaded in February last year.

What followed was a dramatic, three-week escape with their three cats in tow, while bombs rained down on the country.

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