Nadia Zhmikovska was a teenager when she started working for Ukrainian Railways. In 31 years crisscrossing the country, she had never been scared until Russia invaded. “It was scary,” she told CBC News on a recent journey east from Lviv, in western Ukraine. “The trains were under shelling, we went through Zaporizhzhia; in Kyiv we stopped for four hours and we could hear a lot of shelling.”In the first month of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the trains going west were overloaded with panicked passengers fleeing the brutal bombing and shelling in the east, filling up every square metre of the carriages. In one carriage “we had 50 spots and 200 passengers,” she said.

Source: CBC News April 09, 2022 02:45 UTC