# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CbvQpRvOzf4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11680962-natgeo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-30T18:42:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photos by johnstanmeyer | Another heavy day, this past Wednesday, in Lviv: Ukrainian soldiers end their goodbyes with their partners at the railway station moments before being deployed to the front lines in Sumy. These days feel like life in the 1940s.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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Alina and Victor, Victoria and Yuri, before boarding the train toward war…

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Yaryna Volkov, crying in husband Andrew’s arms… ⠀⠀⠀

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Victoria reaches to touch her boyfriend, Yuri’s, hand one last time as his train begins pulling out of Lviv railway station…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

#lviv #ukraine #soldiers #UkrainianSoldiers #RailwayStation #train #war

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soldiers, train, railwaystation, ukrainiansoldiers, war, ukraine, lviv

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