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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Borzou Daragahi

Twice a refugee: How one man in Ukraine fled war once more to get his family to safety

Borzou Daragahi

He had hoped he could spare his three kids the traumatic childhood he had suffered, displaced by a war, fleeing shelling and gunfire.

But earlier this month, after sheltering in the basement of his home for nearly 10 days as Russian bombs pounded Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine, Malkhiz Razgoyev loaded his wife, children, relatives and several neighbours into a three-car convoy and made a desperate dash for safety.

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