Platform four, Lviv’s main railway station, lunchtime today. Another place where the fear of war and the scale of ’s refugee crisis was all too apparent.What an extraordinary and pitiful sight it presented. A couple of thousand people – mainly women and children – were lined several deep for a quarter of a mile of the platform edge.Of all their worldly possessions they had been able to bring only hand luggage and pets. Many of the youngest were swathed in blankets as the temperature hovered a little above zero. Most had been there for many hours; some overnight, waiting, waiting.
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