Russia is fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. To help civilians escape, the Ukrainian railway runs a free evacuation train out of the east. Here's what it's like.
Irina Garmash, a mother of four from the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, sits on an evacuation train that has stopped in the center-eastern city of Dnipro, on July 8. The train carries residents from the eastern Donbas region fleeing war during the Russian invasion. DNIPRO, Ukraine — Every evening a little before 8, a train pulls into the station in this central-eastern Ukrainian town, brakes squealing. It's the last rail service out of Ukraine's bombed-out Donbas region.
Lidia Havrilenko carries her two cats, Kuzma and Nyusya, in plastic grocery bags as she flees the Donbas region. Russian forces are fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region. Earlier this month, Russian and Kremlin-backed separatist forces completed their takeover of the remaining Ukrainian-held parts of Luhansk, and now are making slow gains in Donetsk. Taking the Donbas would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a symbolic victory in a neighboring region that has long been in his sights.
Top left: Volunteers from Victory Church assist a man getting of an evacuation train in Dnipro, Ukraine, on July 8. Top right and bottom: Angelina Karpova, 3 years old, is one of four children of Anna Karpova, 30, arriving from the city of Myrnohrad on an evacuation train on July 10. with her daughter and five grandkids. They're heading to family in central Ukraine., it was contained in the region and she says she never thought it would break into full-scale war.
Yefremova says Russian TV propaganda became pervasive. It spread fears that"fascists" had taken over Ukraine's national government in Kyiv and would come for them next. She says Russian propaganda has poisoned their lives. And even now, many residents believe in it. Yefremova says her family has broken in two. All her children are pro-Ukrainian and one of her sons fights in the Ukrainian military. But she gave up trying to convince her husband, who believes they would be better off under Russian. He stayed behind.
Railway worker Valeriy Garbatyuk says there were always divisions between western and eastern Ukrainians, but this war has brought the country together.
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