Internally displaced Ukrainians arrive at Lviv station

Описание: (22 Mar 2022) Thousands of Ukrainians continued to arrive to and depart from Lviv's central train station in the western part of the country on Tuesday.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that nearly 6.5 million people are internally displaced by the war in Ukraine.
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion, passing another milestone in an exodus that has led to Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
In Lviv, families could be seen saying tearful goodbyes as the women and children boarded trains to Poland and men of fighting age stayed behind, barred from leaving the country.
Exhausted Mariupol survivors also continued to arrive by train from the east of the country.
Among them was Julia Krytska, who made it out of Mariupol on March 19 with her husband and son and arrived on an overcrowded train.
She said they were lucky to get out after volunteers found them in the besieged city that has lost nearly all connection with the world.  
"The people in Mariupol, they don't have a chance to be heard," she told journalists at the train station. "There is no one you can ask for help."
The noisy passage of the trains was often drowned out by the even louder sirens, reminding escapees that even in the west, the threat of air strikes loomed.

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