The desire to flee has become all the more urgent in recent days as the desperate struggle by Ukraine to hold on to its territory in the eastern Donbas region intensifies, with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers clashing in street battles
LVIV, Ukraine — Older men and women and young mothers clutching their children’s hands gingerly made their way down the steep steps of a blue train car on Wednesday afternoon.
Some had been on the train for more than 20 hours, traveling from cities and towns near the front line of the war in the east to the relative safety of Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine, which has been a refuge for thousands of people fleeing strife elsewhere in the country.
The desire to flee has become all the more urgent in recent days as the desperate struggle by Ukraine to hold on to its territory in the eastern Donbas region intensifies, with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers clashing in street battles.
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