The command center on rails: How Ukrainians are keeping trains on track in war
CNNTernopil and Lviv, Ukraine CNN — A muffled sound cuts through the dim room enveloped in long, dark curtains. “The strategy is to move fast so that they don’t catch you, and don’t spend a long time at one location,” Oleksandr Kamyshin, the 37-year-old CEO of Ukrainian Railways, told CNN. Scott McLean/CNN More than two weeks into the invasion, Ukraine’s rail system – one of the world’s largest – has become a lifeline, ferrying essential supplies in, and desperate civilians out of harm’s way. “The decision to let as many people onto the trains as possible was a difficult one because any unfortunate event would affect way more people,” Kamyshin’s deputy, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, who is in charge of the company’s passenger service, told CNN. “ don’t want military supplies, they don’t want people being evacuated, they don’t want humanitarian aid to come into the cities, otherwise, why don’t they let the Mariupol people get out?” said Kamyshin.
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