[3] Many Afghans in Ukraine live in Kyiv and Dnipro, where some run small businesses that recruit workers from Afghanistan.
[2] There is also an Afghan community in Odesa, "made up of successive waves of exiles, refugees, and migrants" as well as commercial traders.
[7] A number of Afghans in Ukraine have volunteered with both the Pro-Russian separatist militias and the Ukrainian army during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
[8] At the beginning of war in the Donbass, an Afghan Pashtun by the name of Rafi Jaffar joined the ranks of the Vostok battalion in 2014.
[13][14][15] There is one known Afghan-Ukrainian in the Ukrainian army named Jalal Noory, an ethnic Tajik who joined following the Russian invasion in 2022.