"Do you know any volunteers here who can help me?" she asked passers-by, clutching her infant son Timofiy. Nina Myronenko stood on Platform 3 with tears streaming down her face. She planned to rest in Lviv before heading to Poland and eventually Switzerland, where she could stay with relatives. "The Russians thought Kharkiv would welcome them. She and her daughters had only a backpack each and a small plastic bag of snacks, and her eyes filled with tears as she spoke of how much they had left behind. She said her area had lost power and cellphone connections, and there were huge lines outside food shops. Her daughters - Margarita, 18, and Lilly, 4 - still jumped at any loud noise.
read moreįilatova said Kharkiv had been bombed and shelled constantly since Feb. Russia said its units had opened humanitarian corridors to allow evacuation of civilians from the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha in eastern Ukraine, encircled by its troops.īut officials in Mariupol said Moscow was not fully observing the limited ceasefire, and the International Committee of the Red Cross said it understood that evacuations would not start on Saturday. But people were not being allowed to bring big luggage on board.Ī train carrying soldiers, which Reuters was ordered not to photograph, set off in the opposite direction. Other women shuffled with their children through a crowded tunnel leading to a platform where were four or five trains a day leave for Poland.
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