Teacher Refugee Recounts Escape From Shelling In Syevyerodonetsk
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Yelena Sleptsova, a grammar school teacher who managed to escape Syevyerodonetsk, a city under heavy shelling in Ukraine's east, recounts getting herself and mother onto a packed train in Kharkiv. In an interview on May 27 in Lviv, she said passengers were ordered to sit in darkness while soldiers fired into the air to quell panicking mobs at the train station.