NEW YORK — CNN’s Clarissa Ward has been in war zones throughout her career as a foreign correspondent. But reporting from an underground subway platform in a large European city filled with Ukrainians seeking refuge from a possible air strike was a throwback to another era.
“It reminded me of World War II scenes we’ve been shown in the U.K. of people taking shelter in tube stations during the Blitz,” Ward said in an interview Thursday from Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine.
She presented an almost surreal scene of civilians sitting on cold concrete floors and in darkened subway cars, fearful of what was coming next during Russia’s unprovoked full-scale military invasion of their country.
