The Nation: Ukrainians Fleeing War Fight to Survive on the Rails
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John Bolger is an investigative reporter from New York City. He tends to write about government, police, and disorder. Works appear in The Intercept, The Nation, Inside Climate News, DNAinfo, Indypendent, more. He also develops software and scrapes data.
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The Nation: Ukrainians Fleeing War Fight to Survive on the Rails
As millions escape Russian invasion, train stations have become terrifying bottlenecks.
At 4 AM on the fourth day of the war, my train pulled into Lviv, Ukraine, and hundreds of refugees began to disembark when a 5-year-old boy fainted in the corridor of a passenger car. As his mother frantically tried to resuscitate him, a crush of refugees pushed behind them. Outside the car window about a thousand desperate refugees clamored to get on a train to Poland.
Read my first report for The Nation to find out what happens next. With millions fleeing Ukraine, the railways have become a vital tool of escape. But with no guarantee at landing a seat, just getting on the train is a fight for survival.
More reporting from the war to come.
Photo: Massive crowds at the Lviv train station; Gaelle Girbes / Getty Images