“I will never forget that day, never, never. Even if I live to the age of 100, I will never forget it,” Kareem said, speaking to The New Arab from Krakow in Poland, about his arduous four-day escape from Kyiv, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine over a month ago. An Algerian student enrolled at Kyiv National Economic University, 29-year-old Kareem found himself uprooted from his three-year-old student life, when he woke early on February 24, the first day of the war, to the sound of glass smashing as Russian bombing reverberated through Ukraine’s capital city, shattering his east Kyiv apartmen…

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