Ukraine Railways: heroic operations since the Russian invasion [Video]

When Ukrainians woke up to the sound of Russian missiles exploding in their towns and cities millions of them fled to train stations.

There were no tickets to safety as such, but there were trains to take them further west, away from the war.

Since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine Railways have transported four million people to Western Ukraine, and over half a million to destinations outside the country accordint to the Ukraine Railways Company.

They had to change the timetables daily, depending on where civilians needed to be evacuated from most urgently.

Getting on the train, people often didn’t know where they were going to, but they knew where they were escaping from.

“Those days were a nightmare,” Oleksandr Kamyshin, CEO of Ukrainian Railways told Euronews reporter Sasha Vakulina. “But we gave …