Valentina Kurushenko ran through a field, carrying her 6-week-old granddaughter, as Russian shells exploded over her hometown of Kherson.
Kurushenko fled the Russian-occupied city on Friday with her 22 year-old daughter and drove for two days, covering almost 900 kilometres, to reach Lviv, a safe haven in western Ukraine for thousands fleeing Russian troops.
Now, the trio wait in a small, hidden room above Lviv train station’s still crowded platforms, alongside dozens of other women and young children who have left everything behind, including their men, to escape death in some of Ukraine’s most besieged cities.
It is the same story for many of the women in this room, tucked away on the third floor of the grand Lviv-Holovnyi railway station, an imposing Art Noveau building that stands sentinel over the busy platforms.
While the refugee flows have slowed as the war in Ukraine continues, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sudovyi estimates the train station is still welcoming about 10,000 people per day, from its peak of about 60,000 – but this could rise again if Russian aggression in other areas continues to escalate.
More than 200,000 refugees remain in Lviv, Sadovyi said, and the refugee crisis was costing the city $1 million per day.
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