The man who keeps the Ukrainian railway system running: from a moving train without a mobile

The man who keeps the Ukrainian railway system running: from a moving train without a mobile

The person in charge of the railway system ukrainian is being a fundamental piece in the escape from horror. Not only for moving refugees, but also for bringing aid from one point to another in the country.

Oleksandr Kamyshin is almost a ghost, a strategist constantly on the move to avoid detection by the enemy. The night the invasion broke out, he said goodbye to his family. and left his home to ride a train that always keeps moving.

From inside the train, where there are no phones and hardly any Internet, Kamyshin keeps the rail network running. “The strategy is to move quickly so that you don’t get caught. The message we want to send to the world is that we are never going to give up,” she says before the cameras of the Ukrainian media.

With his strategy, he has managed to more than two million refugees manage to leave Ukraine. In addition, he yesterday managed to get the three prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia safely to kyiv.

Before, their trains used to move at 160 kilometers per hour and now they only do so at 60. Sometimes they have to stop to repair the tracks under enemy fire and 33 of their employees have already died. Despite everything, they have managed to keep the system running to combat the consequences of the Russian invasion.

Source: Lasexta

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