CTV National News Chief International Correspondent Paul Workman chronicles his journey from Lviv to Ukraine's capital of Kviv on a train packed with hundreds of people headed home.
KYIV -- Departure time was 11:26 a.m. Track two. Car six. A few hundred people waited on the platform. The train was late and everybody knew it would be. Many looked to be families going home. Children, cats and dogs.
Every liberated village has revealed the tragedy, loss and anguish wrought by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal obsession with a country he has long coveted. And now Ukrainians are punished for refusing to become Russian.Look no further than the lines of body bags in Irpin to confirm what happened in Ukraine over the last month. One suburb away from reaching the country’s capital.
The conductor, a blonde woman in her 50s, brought cups of tea and spoke no English. But she found somebody who did, and informed us the train would not arrive in Kyiv until 10 p.m.Ukraine has kept its trains running day and night, at a rate and capacity it never thought necessary or possible. It will be chronicled as one of a few monumental achievements that came out of Putin’s aggressive war. With the railway employees duly honoured for their incredible work during dangerous times.
At some point we turned northeast again, which may be when we saw a long column of Ukrainian tanks loaded on rail cars and parked on a siding.
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