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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Laura Sharman

Dad who left partner for Ukrainian refugee becomes carer as she's now partially blind

A British dad who left his girlfriend for a Ukrainian refugee has given up work to become her full time carer.

Tony Garnett, 29, said it was the "right thing to do" after his new lover Sofiia Karkadym, 22, went partially blind.

The refugee suffered an eye infection in Germany en-route to the UK after fleeing her home in the city of Lviv under Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion.

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