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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Philip Oltermann in Vilnius

‘Putin is killing civilians’: the train station where Russians are greeted with images of war

Vilnius station and a poster of a pregnant woman on a stretcher
Vilnius station: a large poster featuring a pregnant woman on a stretcher following the bombing of a maternity ward in Mariupol. Photograph: Petras Malūkas/AFP/Getty Images

As the night train from Moscow pulled into Vilnius central station for its scheduled 10-minute stop, a curious pair of eyes peeked through one of its windows – only to disappear behind a hastily closed curtain.

The passengers on the train were heading to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which can be accessed via rail only by crossing through Lithuania, and on the platform outside they were faced with images of war and destruction.

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