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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Cait Kelly

‘He literally had 30 seconds’: an Australian couple’s desperate fight to flee Ukraine

Ukrainian civilians trying to board a train
Australian couple who fled Ukraine say they saw bombed out villages and train carriages with women and children who had to leave their husbands behind. Photograph: Marcus Yam/LOS ANGELES TIMES/REX/Shutterstock

Four days ago Tasmanians Rachel Lehmann Ware and her husband, Duncan, received the call.

They had spent the past few nights in the basement of the school they worked in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital at the heart of the Russian invasion.

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