An almost full bus departed from Maastricht on Monday evening, with Kyiv as its final destination. The FlixBus bus came from Brussels and will also stop in several German cities en route to the transfer location in Warsaw.
Most of the 61 travelers on the bus had destinations in Germany or Poland. Ukrainian Oksana Radionova (31) got on the bus in Maastricht. She said she was going back to her home in Kyiv because she couldn’t find a shelter for her three cats. They still have enough food and water, she said. Her father was supposed to care for the animals, but he also fled a week after her. “I have no choice,” Oksana said. “I’m terrified. Bombs fall on the city at night. But I can’t abandon my cats.”
She ended up in the Netherlands through all kinds of detours. “First with the train through hell, from Kyiv to Lviv, where frightened people fight for every place to flee. Then via Slovakia to Germany, but everything there was full. So I ended up in Utrecht and Maastricht.”
She hopes…