Edison Montachana is an Ecuadorian International Business student in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. He has tried to leave that country after the skirmishes over the Russian invasion that began last Thursday. His attempt to leave has been reported by him on his social networks.
This Saturday, their most recent report, when it was 10:30 p.m. in Kiev (3:30 p.m. in Ecuador), was from a train where they were required to maintain security measures while trying to pass through Kiev en route to the south.
At noon 5am Ecuador time we managed to board the train in the middle of jostling, now we are traveling to Kiev, we decided to take a calculated risk in search of being far from the border with Russia. At this time of publication we are 40 minutes away from reaching Kiev. pic.twitter.com/K6ExeBec5O
— Edison Montachana (@EDMontachana) February 26, 2022
“We hope that these are security protocols when entering a train to Kiev with more than 250 passengers, the vast majority of whom are foreigners,” he says of the unexpected journey. Just a week ago the situation for the hundreds of Ecuadorians residing in Ukraine, as for the millions of Ukrainians, became tense and dangerous due to the announcements of Russian military attacks by land and sky.
“We know that no city guarantees security, but now we run risks 7 hours from the border with Europe, and not 15 kilometers with Russia,” writes who a couple of days ago already warned of the problem in getting tickets to leave the capital that is being besieged by Russian forces.
“We reached the edge of the capital, Kiev, (…) The lights of the cars were turned off, we were asked to remain silent without turning on flashlights and mobile devices with the minimum brightness.”
“They are going to be 30 minutes of intensity. At noon (5am Ecuador time) we managed to board the train in the midst of jostling, now we are traveling to Kiev, we decided to take a calculated risk in search of being far from the border with Russia. At this time of publication we are 40 minutes away from reaching Kiev.”
After overcoming the pushes and fights that were given by those of us who tried to get on, inside the car, 90% foreigners, shouts, claims and pleas are heard in several languages; Arabic, French, English, trying to communicate with each other. pic.twitter.com/B0fVLyBS0h
— Edison Montachana (@EDMontachana) February 26, 2022
Edison Montachana hopes to find a way out of Ukraine while the Ecuadorian government has already reported that some 350 Ecuadorians could return to the country on the first humanitarian flight from Poland.
His priority is to get to Lviv, or get direct transportation to the Polish border.
At least 700 Ecuadorians are enduring the terror of a conflict that keeps their families in Ecuador on edge. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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