In Ukraine, the flood of displaced people fleeing the war only grows
LA TimesA man comforts his wife in Lviv, Ukraine, before she boards a train to Przemysl, Poland. Because of the gender split, jumping-off spots inside Ukraine — like this scruffy border town, a short walk from Medyka, Poland — have become stages for high drama. “I would remain in Ukraine and fight,” Bondar responded, as he stood at the border post, moments after his family had entered Poland. Humanitarian corridors, rotating shifts of escape vehicles, and Ukraine’s still-functioning passenger train grid provide relatively reliable passage out of war zones and to the country’s boundaries. “Columns of Russian tanks were shooting at the buildings,” Bondar recalled, showing a reporter cellphone video of his once-tranquil hometown transformed into a war zone — a wasteland of charred armored vehicles and shattered apartment buildings.
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