The disabled were hoisted high into train carriages to evacuate their houses during a pause in the mayhem.
The war has now gotten to be too much for them after more than three months of fighting.
Hundreds of desperate people attempted to board trains at Pokrovsk station in the war-torn Donbas to escape Vladimir Putin’s deadly march in the east of Ukraine.
People of various ages were transported by buses from Lysychansk, Donetsk, and Severodonetsk.
They carried babies, cats in baskets, and overstuffed luggage. Sisters Yeva, age six, and Katia, age ten, were a part of the crowds.
He made the decision to flee after they started asking their father if they would live.
“If you’re an adult with iron nerves, you can stay there and survive in some way.” While traveling to Lviv, Olexander—not his real name—said, “But my children do not.”
We could see the shell explosions from our home, which was about a quarter of a mile away. All the time, the kids were anxious.
The 26-year-old Marharyta pushed a pushchair up the stairs while holding her one-year-old son Maksym.
Mykyta, her six-year-old son, trailed behind.
They joined the more than 7.7 million Ukrainians who have already left by fleeing Sloviansk, which is west of Severodonetsk.
Staff on the platform used a sling to pull 64-year-old cancer patient Halyna onto the train.
After being evacuated from Bakhmut by UK nonprofit RefugEase, she need immediate medical assistance.
Last week, Pokrovsk received two shellings.
The strikes increased worries that Kramatorsk, where Russian missiles struck the train station in April and killed 59 would-be refugees, could happen again.