‘No longer only conductors’: Ukraine’s rail workers play key war role
Oleksandr Kamyshin, the CEO of Ukraine’s state-owned train company and one of the country’s most powerful men, mingled in a crowd of about 60 children aged 10 to 16 and at least a dozen pets.
At the Children’s Railway, a Kyiv park complete with a miniature train station, they were all celebrating the many Ukrainian people and pets evacuated by rail. Students at the associated Children’s Railway School, training to one day work in the train system, had dressed appropriately in conductor outfits.
It was a fitting, rare few hours off for Mr. Kamyshin, wearing a navy polo and cargo pants himself. That week in June, he’d spent five of his last seven nights in an overnight car. So even on a morning he wasn’t
