Afghan refugee family in Kyiv flees second war in sixth months | USA TODAY

Mir Ahmad Safi and his family fled to Kyiv when Kabul fell to the Taliban. The family evacuated again only six months later when Russia attacked.

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Sumayya Safi was born Wednesday, Feb. 23, in a hospital in the mountains of western Ukraine, near where her Afghan family had been staying in the basement of a U.N. refugee agency.

The next day, Russia invaded her country.

Mir Safi and his family had fled Kabul, Afghanistan, in August as the Taliban took over. Mir had worked as a fixer for USA TODAY, helping our journalists covering the war. He was also a prosecutor in the Afghan government.

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