Eight months ago, when Samad fled war-torn Afghanistan with his family for a safe haven in Ukraine, little did the 14-year-old know he would be fleeing once again.
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Sixteen days into the invasion, explosions have been reported at Ukrainian airports and military bases, and in major cities, such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv. “My family came here for peace. But when [we] heard fighting would start here … nobody could believe it,” Samad’s father Mohammad* said.Samad and his family were living in a peaceful town in Afghanistan in July 2021, when fighting escalated across the country.
“It was war and it was bombing, and very bad says. A lot of people were killed in the war, so we left Afghanistan,” Samad said.A new life in Ukraine“When the war started in Afghanistan we left our house full of things,” he said.Just when Samad was settling into his new life in eastern Ukraine – going to school and starting to learn the language – the family found itself in the path of approaching bombardment again.
UK-based Save the Children – which provides emergency aid in natural disasters, wars and other conflicts, and actively campaigns for the rights of young people – has called on European Union member states to actively grant temporary protection to those who have fled Ukraine due to the recent conflict.
“To be forced to flee across borders twice in the space of months is almost impossible to conceive,” Mr Alexandrescu said.“Everything will be right. I think so. I hope so,” he said.
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