In the calm beauty of the Lviv station, displaced families wrestle with the decision to return home, where the war is closer but 'Our walls will heal us.”
Some Ukrainians are leaving the relatively safe city of Lviv to return to their hometowns despite the ongoing danger there. LVIV, Ukraine — Train 750L was running nearly an hour behind schedule when it rumbled into the western Ukrainian hub of Lviv one recent afternoon.
Jack was the main draw for Morozova’s younger daughter, 7-year-old Varvara. Her 9-year-old son, Hlib, said he missed his toys. The return was more complicated for Morozova’s elder daughter, Sasha, 20, a college student whose dreams of studying in Spain were interrupted by war, forcing her into a parental role when the family escaped to Lviv.“It’s really difficult,” Sasha said. “I started helping my mom more with the kids.
Anton Bobryshev and Sasha Pomazan, a couple in their mid-20s waiting on the platform, said they used to marvel at accounts from World War II and the 1930s— the intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin — in which people who had fled returned to help others.
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