In Pics: Fleeing Russian Attack, Packed Trains Pour Into Ukraine's Lviv
Updated: March 05, 2022 21:21 IST
Thousands of women and children, many weeping and numb with exhaustion, arrived in Lviv in western Ukraine on Saturday as the state railway put on more trains to rescue people from fierce Russian attacks on eastern cities.
Lviv, a city of trams and cobblestone streets, has become a staging area for humanitarian aid
Families arrived in Lviv with few belongings. Some on wheelchairs, others accompanied by pet dogs and cats, uncertain about their fate
Hundreds more people lined up in flurries of snow on the station forecourt, warming themselves on oil-drum braziers or lining up for hot food and drinks served by volunteers.
Women shuffled with their children through a crowded tunnel leading to a platform where were four or five trains a day leave for Poland
Long lines have been seen for free buses to Poland for women, children and older men. Men of fighting age are not permitted to leave Ukraine.
The UN refugee agency has said the conflict looked set to trigger Europe's largest refugee crisis this century.
