CAIRO — Islam al-Ashiri, an Egyptian who works as a tour guide in Ukraine, won high praise from social media users recently after he helped several families flee the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which is under Russian attack, to the city of Lviv near the Polish border.
Ashiri, 27, told Al-Monitor that he initially managed to rescue a Lebanese man, and then an Iraqi woman and her four children after their house was bombed by the Russians. By the time he got to them they had run out of food.
