'We're free': Ukraine families reunite as Kherson train station reopens and train service resumes from Kyiv

Train service between Kyiv and Kherson is restored after nine months.

The first train from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to Kherson since before Russia’s invasion arrived on Saturday after an 11-hour journey, a step in reconnecting the vital southern city a week after Ukrainian troops wrested control back from Russian occupation.

Train 102, which arrived in Kherson in the morning, carried 200 passengers and would be the start of regular service between the cities, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in the president’s office, wrote in a post on the TG messaging app.

Videos posted on social media by Ukrainian officials showed the train departing to cheers and applause from people on the platform as triumphant rock music blasted over the loudspeakers.

“This is our victory train!” Mr. Tymoshenko wrote. “Like this train, we will return to Kherson everything for a normal life!”

Electricity and water were restored to the train station in Kherson before the train’s arrival, according to Serhii Khlan, the previously exiled deputy governor of the Kherson region. Officials said the train would travel from Kyiv to Kherson on even-numbered dates and from Kherson to Kyiv on odd-numbered ones.

Train service also resumed a few days earlier from Kyiv to Mykolaiv, a battered Black Sea port city near Kherson. Rail officials said at the time that reconnecting the link to Kherson was challenging because Russian forces in retreat had extensively mined the rails, leading to explosions that have injured at least nine railway workers in recent days.

Oleksandr Kamyshin, the rail company’s chief executive, wrote on Twitter that the resumption of rail was important because roads made muddy and impassible by snow and rain had hampered efforts to get aid to Kherson’s residents.

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Train service between Kyiv and Kherson is restored after nine months.

The first train from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to Kherson since before Russia’s invasion arrived on Saturday after an 11-hour journey, a step in reconnecting the vital southern city a week after Ukrainian troops wrested control back from Russian occupation.

Train 102, which arrived in Kherson in the morning, carried 200 passengers and would be the start of regular service between the cities, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in the president’s office, wrote in a post on the messaging app.

Videos posted on social media by Ukrainian officials showed the train departing to cheers and applause from people on the platform as triumphant rock music blasted over the loudspeakers.

“This is our victory train!” Mr. Tymoshenko wrote. “Like this train, we will return to Kherson everything for a normal life!”

Electricity and water were restored to the train station in Kherson before the train’s arrival, according to Serhii Khlan, the previously exiled deputy governor of the Kherson region. Officials said the train would travel from Kyiv to Kherson on even-numbered dates and from Kherson to Kyiv on odd-numbered ones.

Train service also resumed a few days earlier from Kyiv to Mykolaiv, a battered Black Sea port city near Kherson. Rail officials said at the time that reconnecting the link to Kherson was challenging because Russian forces in retreat had extensively mined the rails, leading to explosions that have injured at least nine railway workers in recent days.

Oleksandr Kamyshin, the rail company’s chief executive, wrote on Twitter that the resumption of rail was important because roads made muddy and impassible by snow and rain had hampered efforts to get aid to Kherson’s residents.

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Looks like a lot of happy people there now that train service has resumed and families can re-unite for the first time in months.

Let’s hope the peace holds.

Now let’s hope the Russians don’t decide to launch a cruise missile attack on the train station and blow it up with everyone inside it.

So what about the usual Russian propaganda shill’s thread saying Kherson is being evacuated?

What a load of disinfo.

So people are evacuating INTO Kherson or what?

https://twitter.com/_/status/1594114548675612675

The railroad was obviously mined by Ukrainian nazis to blame Russia.

Blame

Blame

Blame others.

Sounds like those who cannot be named.

Fuck off.

So what’s your next propaganda news flash? The glorious and munificent Russian army repaired it and restored electricity so that Ukrainians could evacuate into Kherson?

Goid to hear but it’s going to be a while before they’ll be able to get a burger at McDonalds, which was a high priority strategic target for the Russians.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1593988762731626497

Perfect example of more senseless misery and destruction brought to you courtesy of Russia

Because destroying the power and clean water infrastructure of civilians on your way out is oh so noble and liberating

Those brave orcs just saving them from their nwo oppressors

+1

AHH A happy story from a country that really is not at war



FUCK UKRAINE

Pretty obvious, isn’t it?

lol

And that with all these men, women and children so happy to reunify with their families after months of hel,

Pure evil.

Russian State Media would probably justify it by saying they were storing HIMARS there and making artillery rounds with the french fry machine.

Kiev

Kyiv

Right.

Now, in the REAL news...

The thread title is the real news, not some YouTube propaganda.

And let’s not forget what Kremlin paid Douglas Macgregor predicted back in March

https://twitter.com/_/status/1507464332929556483

https://twitter.com/_/status/1573356666384424961

He’s even got his own spot on primetime Russian State TV now.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1508704831661383686

Hope they are paying him well for those too.

Real news is Kherson is now under extreme Russian missile fire and is being evacuated.

All aboard that train to fuck off out of there.

Now Ukrainian terrorists will be able to safely hide behind the backs of civilians.

Thread: IT'S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG !!! Ukraine now evacuating Kherson !!!