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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alistair Mason

‘Why I wrote contact details on my two-year-old daughter’s back as I fled Kyiv’

A Ukrainian mother who scrawled contact details on her daughter’s back in pen as they prepared to flee the war has described her desperation to make sure she would be cared for if they were separated.

Sasha Makoviy, 33, wrote two-year-old Vira’s name on her skin, along with contact phone numbers, on the first day of the Russian invasion in February as she prepared to evacuate her home in Kyiv.

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