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Trying to leave by train

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Yeah, so when you were talking about

of people trying to travel and get out?

Oh yeah, I think if you go on like Google

I didn't add because that's not my picture

in Kharkiv, it just was a mess.

It was huge amount of the train,

station,

into the trains, the train schedules

Schedules were delayed,

We were receiving,

like some trains in like Sumy,

they're up there on the north and east

they were being bombed.

And we feel like, okay,

the train because the train is very,

goal if you want to hit that.

But we already were in the train station

absolutely random amount of people, like,

friends, not friends, and,

I still sometimes feel very opposed when I

it takes me time to process

memories that we had on those first days.

I think we all,

of just staying on the train station,

it was winter, it was snowing.

The first time in my life I started

on the streets, meaning that there is

And we were staying under the sort of like

we were waiting for some trains.

Huge amount of people around,

pushing each other,

you know, getting

And we stayed like that almost for 7 hours

he was staying next to me because I

somewhere south, so possibly

And we stayed there for 7 hours And one

And I asked, me or my father, some of us,

And there are people, you know,

"To the south." So there was no

It was just going to the south.

So we went to the train straight away.

We didn't pay for the tickets, obviously.

We couldn't.

People were still trying to use like

But having been in that crowd,

being pushed in the train trying

I'm not buying any tickets,

Trains being delayed.

So we get into some of the trains.

I remember, so in Ukraine we have like

on the first floor, shall I say,

there's a second floor and there's the

and all that.

So the trains were,

personally, I climbed on the latest level.

I moved all of the pillows,

level full of dust.

And yes, that was the only option where I

you know, was full of people.

And my period started that day,

You know, emotionally it was so mixed up,

And so we were driving

didn't know exactly where we will stay.

And I felt absolutely, you know,

the previous life

And right now, I mean,

life, it didn't exist, it didn't happen

I feel disconnected to that.

I have no— I just have some memories,

I feel like I'm just watching

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