This platform for Kyiv: the Polish train station with arrivals and departures of war
As families unload from trains arriving in Przemyl, returning Ukrainians and others head in the opposite direction to fight or be with loved ones
Platform four or three: at the railway station in Przemyl, Poland, the fates of hundreds of Ukrainians lie divided. On platform four, families fleeing the Russian bombing of Ukraine get off the carriages, seeking asylum in Europe. At platform three, dozens of Ukrainian men and women are about to board a blue train bound for Odessa, southern Ukraine.
I have worked and lived in many countries," says Oksana, 50. I have lived in Poland and Italy. Ukraine may not be as beautiful as Italy, but it is my country. And I'm not leaving my country at such a difficult time. If all Ukrainians flee the country, who will stay in Ukraine? I see many of my fellow countrypeople around me here, coming from Germany and Poland. Some of them had good jobs. But they left them to return to Ukraine and fight."
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