Special envoy to Pokrovsk and Dnipro
Platform 5 of the Dnipro station is deserted.
A railway worker sticks his head out of the train window.
“Do you want to ride with us?
he asks perplexed.
Dima has just turned 19, he looks even younger.
He goes down to the platform then explains: “
The road is dangerous!
The Russians are hitting everywhere… We are leaving for the Donbass, in Pokrovsk: the last station before the front
.”
A week earlier, two Russian missiles killed six people there.
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No wonder, then, that the wagons are empty.
On the way out, Dima and his colleagues don't even bother to put on their uniforms;
every day, the train leaves only to return, loaded with the latest refugees from the Donbass.
For these evacuation missions, Dnipro is the ideal starting point: the city is located equidistant from the main current fronts - Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk.
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Olga, the conductor of the train, arrives on the platform, slippers on her feet and a Vogue cigarette in her mouth.
In front of his boss, Dima adds…
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