Forced to give up their homes and leave their families, everyday Ukrainians boarded a train in hopes of finding safety.
@NBCNews spent 15 hours on a train from Przemysl, Poland to Berlin with Ukrainian refugees.
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Nataliia Sukhar and her son, Gleb had never left Ukraine before. But in 24 hours, they will have crossed two national borders — first Poland and then Germany. Berlin is their final destination — or as final as they can imagine in the midst of the chaos.
After days hiding with 60 other people in the basement of a department store in Kharkiv, Sukhar decided to go to Germany.
That meant having to leave her conscription-age husband behind.
“I am just afraid that I may never see him again,” she said softly.
She doesn’t know how long she will stay in Germany, but she is determined to find a job.
Still, Sukhar said she would go back home in a heartbeat, although she harbored little hope.
More than 4M have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion over a month ago.
The war and the resulting refugee crisis not only threatens to reshape Europe’s geopolitical landscape, but it continues to upend the lives of millions of Ukrainians.
Reporter @yulst and photographer @jacobiadahm went on a journey with a handful of Ukrainian families as they traveled into the unknown. Read more: nbcnews.to/3j2UDPn
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