From WSJopinion: Railway workers are Ukraine’s “second army.” Fleeing civilians, visiting dignitaries and military supplies all count on the trains continuing to run, writes JillianKayM.
A passenger train was hit by a Russian missile en route to Irpin, Ukraine for an evacuation.The railway system is called the “iron road” in Russian and the “ironery” in Ukrainian. “It’s not for nothing that we are called the iron people,” train driver Yurii Yelisieiev, 42, says of Ukraine’s railway workers.
“Some people say railway men are the second army,” says the Ukrainian railway system’s CEO, Alexandr Kamyshin. War has claimed the lives of some 165 of his employees. Another 252 have been injured and five captured by Russia. Illya Prudnik, a 20-year-old train steward, recalls how once at the Kharkiv train station, artillery hit so close that he could feel the vibrations from the floor as everyone dived to the ground. During one journey, he got a message on his radio of an unwell passenger several cars down, but the train was too packed to make his way through. When it pulled into a station, he grabbed his first-aid kit and sprinted down the platform to help.
The war has shut down air traffic, and Russia has seized key port cities and blockaded the Black Sea. Most adult Ukrainian men under 60 can’t leave the country during wartime, which limits who can drive across the borders. And the traffic lines at points of entry stretch for miles.
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