in a four hour period on saturday. the bbc s fergal keane is in lviv in western ukraine where there are chaotic scenes as people try to board trains out of the country this train is going now towards dnipro, now towards dnipro, which is in the east. no good to the people who are standing around who want to get west as fast as they can, away from what they fear will be the advance of the russians. and there are thousands of people along this platform. can any train possibly take the number of people who are here? it seems very, very doubtful. there s an air of desperation. it s quiet, desperation no less realfor that. shouting. this is hard to credit, to believe, in the europe of 2022. people are just crushing all around me trying
with people wanting to get out. this is hard to credit, to believe, in the europe of 2022. people are just crushing all around me trying to get onto these trains. a woman, a young mother with a baby there screaming because everyone s getting crushed. their hope is that the train would help them avoid this. the line of cars to the polish border. those people are moving on foot down towards the border with poland, but it s another 20 kilometers from where we are at the moment. we just need to move out of the way and let more people pass us here. they re coming. a constant procession of people. however they arrive at the border, this slow shuffle out of the lives they knew is what awaits. despite russia s military might,
with people wanting to get out. this is hard to credit, to believe, in the europe of 2022. people are just crushing all around me trying to get onto these trains. a woman, a young mother with a baby there screaming because everyone s getting crushed. their hope is that the train would help them avoid this. the line of cars to the polish border. their hope is that the train would help them avoid this. the line of cars to the polish border. those people are moving on foot down towards the border with poland, but it s another 20 kilometers from where we are at the moment. we just need to move out of the way and let more people pass us here. they re coming. a constant procession of people. however they arrive at the border, this slow shuffle out of the lives they knew is what awaits.
asking for a humanitarian corridor to be made available to allow civilians to be evacuated safely out of the conflict areas which, as we have seen, and places like mauripol have seen, and places like mauripol have not been made available. civilians say they continue to be sheued civilians say they continue to be shelled and face bombings and explosions with no respite and no end in sight. as i have been saying, the majority of people have been making their way to western ukraine where it has been relatively safe and peaceful but every now and then we are reminded of this conflict when the sirens go off and the majority of people are shown to undergo underground bunkers created in the second world war and people are having to use them again. in 2022. people are also resisting there. there has not been a greater sense of solidarity here in ukraine than now. people are creating molotov cocktails, making camouflage nets. they are doing what they can to assist the military to heed the