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Narrated by Dominic Lawson
On a 12-hour train journey from Kyiv to Chelm, there is plenty of time to talk to your neighbours. Especially during a two-hour stop at the Polish border, when multiple security checks are inflicted on the passengers of a massive train with about 20 carriages. While this rigmarole was being carried out, one of the three Ukrainian women with whom I shared a four-person sleeper compartment — she was called Kseniia — invited me to sit on her bunk, below mine, to talk about her country’s troubles over cups of black tea.
This was last Sunday morning, just after the news broke that Hungary’s President Orban had vetoed the European Union’s scheme — which required unanimity — to send a further €50 billion in aid
