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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MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Ukrainian biological laboratories were developing components of the biological weapons in the immediate vicinity of the Russian territory, official spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry General-Major Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on Sunday.
“Obtained documents evidence that Ukrainian bio-laboratories were developing components of biological weapons in the immediate vicinity of the Russian territory,” the spokesman said.
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“Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.”
(Leviticus 25:44-46)