Since the start of the war in Ukraine, thousands of people have fled the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In recent days, Ukraine’s national railway company has seen an influx of people who did not want to leave their country but who have finally resigned themselves to boarding evacuation trains. FRANCE 24 reports from aboard a train carrying displaced people from Donbas.
On Wednesday morning, Dr Oleksander Babitch and other doctors from Ukrzaliznytsia, the national railway company, gather on the platform of the railway station in Dnipro, a large industrial city in eastern Ukraine and the gateway to the Donbas. It marks the start of a new operation aimed at evacuating civilians caught in the ever-intensifying fighting.
