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'Back Home': Family Who Fled Front Buried After Kyiv Strike

The funeral for Mykyta and Sofia Lamekhov and their son Lev in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on August 5 (Credit: AFP)

College sweethearts Mykyta and Sofia Lamekhov had simple dreams: safety for their family and a fresh start at life, away from the war they thought they had left behind in east Ukraine.

Mykyta, 23, and Sofia, 22, fled their front-line hometown of Sloviansk for the capital Kyiv, where they made a home for their two-year-old son Lev and the baby Sofia was expecting.

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