The last time Enver saw his home was the day the war began. Just hours after Russian tanks and troops swarmed across the Ukrainian border, he and his pregnant wife packed their two children into the car and started the long journey from their home in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel to the south-western city of Izmail, where they had family.
Enver, who The Canberra Times is identifying only by his patronymic, planned to take his family to relative safety and then return to Kyiv to pick up cash and documents.
But there would be no going back. Hostomel would quickly become a place of horrors. Enver's neighbours would be killed by Russian soldiers. His house would be destroyed by a rocket, so would his business.
