Videos and photos of Egypt’s Islam Al-Ashiri, who works as a tour guide in Ukraine, have gone viral on social media after he helped several families fleeing the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which is under Russian attack, to the city of Lviv near the Polish border.
Because Al-Ashiri, 27, is a foreign citizen and has a car. He could have an easy access to Poland and was also able to cross the border safely. Instead, he turned back, with an intent to help Arab families fleeing the war, many driving west from Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities under bombardment but with no destination or plan — as well as rescuing more Arab families.
Speaking to the Egyptian media, the brave tour guide said: "I've managed to rescue a Lebanese man, and then an Iraqi woman and her four children after their house was bombed by the Russian forces."
The young Egyptian man also described his evacuation assistance efforts to save two Egyptian-Yemeni brothers in the village of Chernihiv Oblast, in the north of Ukraine, where he had spent two days while traveling east — the opposite direction of those who are fleeing.
"The mission was very urgent. I was shot twice by the Russian forces on my way to rescue the afflicted family, but I continued and did stop until I reached the village to pick up them."
"When I got there they were not ready to leave the house, because they had lost hope that I would make it. They assumed I had been injured or killed,” he recounted.
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