Posted on Mar 15, 2022
Ukraine's wartime rail chief has to be faster than the Russians tracking him — BBC News
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"There is a last-minute change of plan. He won't be leaving from the main station after all. The bodyguards move fast and we follow, racing along the quiet streets behind the convoy, and into the suburbs.
The Russians would like to kill him.
Oleksandr Kamyshin is sure of this. So the 37-year-old chairman of Ukraine's railway network constantly changes his travel plans. Never stay in one place too long. Never have a routine that the Russians can discover.
"We have to be faster than those people who try to track us," he tells me.
The railway is the country's biggest employer with 231,000 staff across 233,000 square miles (603,470 sq km) of territory - Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe.
So far Mr Kamyshin estimates his staff have helped to move 2.5 million people to safety. But the vast operation has come at a cost. Schedules have to be constantly updated because of Russian attacks. Since Vladimir Putin's invasion began, 33 railway staff have been killed.
"They hit our track daily. They hit the stations. Our people risk their lives. They go under shelling. They keep saving people," says Mr Kamyshin.
When we first meet, he is sitting at a long table with his close advisors, studying a map of the national rail network. Police guard the entrance to the room."...
"There is a last-minute change of plan. He won't be leaving from the main station after all. The bodyguards move fast and we follow, racing along the quiet streets behind the convoy, and into the suburbs.
The Russians would like to kill him.
Oleksandr Kamyshin is sure of this. So the 37-year-old chairman of Ukraine's railway network constantly changes his travel plans. Never stay in one place too long. Never have a routine that the Russians can discover.
"We have to be faster than those people who try to track us," he tells me.
The railway is the country's biggest employer with 231,000 staff across 233,000 square miles (603,470 sq km) of territory - Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe.
So far Mr Kamyshin estimates his staff have helped to move 2.5 million people to safety. But the vast operation has come at a cost. Schedules have to be constantly updated because of Russian attacks. Since Vladimir Putin's invasion began, 33 railway staff have been killed.
"They hit our track daily. They hit the stations. Our people risk their lives. They go under shelling. They keep saving people," says Mr Kamyshin.
When we first meet, he is sitting at a long table with his close advisors, studying a map of the national rail network. Police guard the entrance to the room."...
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