Article 5WJGZ ‘Everyone was fighting to get on a train’: the desperation of Ukrainians trying to reach safety

‘Everyone was fighting to get on a train’: the desperation of Ukrainians trying to reach safety

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Peter Beaumont in Lviv
from World news | The Guardian on (#5WJGZ)

The railway station in Lviv near the Polish border is overwhelmed with requests but has almost no tickets

At the ticket windows in the railway station in Lviv in western Ukraine, 60 kilometres from the Polish border, there are two kinds of tickets for the refugees wanting to flee the violence of the Russian invasion.

First, the free tickets for the evacuation trains. The catch is, these are almost impossible to get.

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