Leaving Kharkiv with children, suitcases and trauma.

 
Days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have faced resistance from Ukrainian forces as they threaten major cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv and drive hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian residents to flee to neighboring countries.

“LVIV, Ukraine — Passengers streaming off the train from Kharkiv looked shellshocked, their faces drawn with tiredness. They clutched children with big, staring eyes. ‘From Kharkiv,’ said Olena Tuliakova, dragging a wheeled suitcase and holding her 3-year-old son, Ilya, by the hand. ‘I left my parents there,’ she added, breaking into tears. She said she planned to travel across Europe to Spain, where her husband was working. She had taped a label to Ilya’s jacket with his name and the family’s phone numbers in case he got lost in the crush or worse. ...”

1 comment:

  1. have you ever been to Ukraine?
    i know it from inside, watching Kiev beyond my window.
    i have visited it all through from N to S, and from W to E, but known my residental Dnieper region best.
    i've been born here and lived 4 times 15 + at the same place in Kiev.
    what kind of bullshit are you, fucking bitch, going to convey to me, and what fuck for?

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