The Ukrainians have made the train system in cities such as the capital Kiev the main point of refuge amid the advance of Russian troops after the invasion of the country this Thursday.
Images of International news agencies and social networks report how thousands of victims are heading to the underground system after they woke up this morning to the sound of the explosions launched by the Russians.
Several stations are packed with families, many with the elderly and children.
In Kharkiv, a city near the Russian border, three residents told BuzzFeed News that they stood up before dawn due to the bombing.
“We will probably leave the city,” said a woman who asked not to be identified for security reasons. “I can not understand how this can happen in the century 21”, complained the female.
Another woman at a station in Kharkiv told CNN that, faced with a “totally new reality”, he finds himself in uncertainty.
“What is my plan now?”, he expressed. “I do not know. For now we are going to stay here”, he added.
The stations of Public buses are also overflowing with Ukrainians trying to leave the country.
Even, Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of the aforementioned city, the second largest in Ukraine, sought refuge in the tunnels of the transport system.
“The ‘subway’ is the safest place”, said the politician to residents.
In case of hearing bombing alarms (sirens), the authorities asked citizens to leave their homes and go to public transport stations.
Telemundo correspondent Cecilia Guardati indicated that border countries such as Poland expect the arrival of some five million Ukrainian refugees as a result of the emergency. Most of these people would be moving to western Ukraine to leave the country.
The urgency of some Ukrainians only allowed them to run away with a backpack or small suitcases , leaving behind other belongings and without proper protection of their homes.
A senior US Pentagon official indicated today that the ultimate goal of the Russians is to take Kiev and “decapitate” the Government of the Ukrainian President Volodímir Zelenski.
“We believe that they have every intention of basically decapitating the (Zelensky) government and installing its own form of government, which would explain these early advances towards Kiev,” the official was quoted as saying by CNN.
According to the expert, who asked to remain anonymous, the Russian attack includes three main shafts main: one from the south to the north, from the Crimea to a city called Kherson; a second from the north, from Belarus to Kiev; and a third, from the Russian region of Belgorod to the outskirts of Kharkov, located in northeastern Ukraine.
The US authorities calculate that this morning since the bombings began, more than 100 missiles over Ukraine from Russia and Belarus, and that there were some 75 Russian planes involved.
On Tuesday, The Pentagon announced that it planned to send to “various locations” on NATO’s eastern flank eight F-fighter bombers 35, who were in Germany.
This Thursday, six of eight fighter-bombers F-16 were sent to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, according to a statement from the Spangdahlem air base in Germany.
The US president. , Joe B. iden, met early this Thursday with members of his National Security Council to discuss the invasion of Ukraine, before discussing the issue with the rest of the G7 leaders in a virtual meeting.
The official is expected to announce new sanctions against Moscow.
You may be interested:
LIVE: Biden announces actions against Russia for attack in Ukraine