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Who reached Kyiv from Kabul on 17 August 2021?
Summary
A retrospective on the evacuation of an Afghan film director to Ukraine, and on a death reported in Kryvyi Rih two days earlier.
Who was among those who made it out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took Kabul? On 17 August 2021, reports said that Sahraa Karimi, a well-known Afghan film director and general director of the state film company Afghan Film, had been evacuated from Afghanistan to Kyiv.
The account placed Karimi's journey directly after the Taliban's seizure of the Afghan capital. Her position at the head of the state film company made her a prominent figure in the country's cultural life, and her arrival in the Ukrainian capital was reported as part of the evacuation from Kabul.
A separate story from Ukraine
The same period brought other news inside Ukraine. On 15 August 2021, the mayor of Kryvyi Rih, Kostiantyn Pavlov, was found dead in his home.
The two reports concerned different events. One linked Ukraine to the aftermath of the fall of Kabul; the other was a local story from the city of Kryvyi Rih.
