As the fighting increases in Ukraine and civilians are increasingly caught in the crossfire, more Ukrainians are being forced to flee their homes.
The refugee crisis is growing greater by the hour, with more than 1.3 million people now displaced.
You don't need to see guns, bullets, or bombs to find the frontline of this war, because it's here in the eyes of those who have already seen too much suffering for their years. It's also in the distress of a mother who survived giving birth in a bomb shelter last week, only to find herself now begging for a train ticket across the border.
As the war escalates and devastates, the number of people fleeing Ukraine continues to rise exponentially.
"Two bombs came down and our house was like shaking like that, and we don't have a bomb shelter," one Ukrainian says.
Wartime experiences are rapidly becoming everyday ones for everyday Ukrainians.
"We want to come home, we don't want to leave our home, but we don't have another choice," Natalia says.
So they join the line for the train bound for Poland, but it is tense and laced with exhaustion and desperation.
Most of the Ukrainians there have already made the seven-hour journey from the burning capital of Kyiv and are now faced with another four-hour wait there at least.
"I am very sad and scared. Mum as well," one person says.
Above ground, the carriages of the first train west have already been filled with the same stories.
"We didn't want to leave there, we wanted to live in our house, our home," another says.
They're overflowing with grief, disbelief, and children who haven't yet registered the full weight of the war.
Like the rest of the world, one woman Newshub spoke to searched for the words to describe this moment but couldn't think of any.
While she had no words and nowhere to stay, she's on track to safety
It's no wonder that as one train pulled out of the station, the stalled crowd below began to surge towards the next, towards the promise of a life that isn't ruled by war.
There have been 10 days of people fleeing Ukraine now. Thousands of people crammed underground for hours, waiting for a train to safety
There are only four trains a day from Lviv, Ukraine, and there are more people than seats. But if you can squeeze in you can stay, so pets are dragged along the floor and children struggle to keep up with the rest as their parents run down the platform searching for an opening
It's the final rush to freedom away from the horror they've just escaped.
While some are looking forward to getting on a train, for the men, Lviv is as good as it's going to get.
From Kharkiv, where 34 civilians died in 24 hours this week, one fighting-aged man sought sanctuary before the inevitable call to duty.
Asked how he thought the war will end, he said: "I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will f***ing die in his bunker and we will dance on his grave."
Their spite and anger is fuelled by deep despair at the pain that's already been caused.
"It's really terrible. I will say to all our friends in other countries, get help for us, help for Ukraine, because the Russian people kill us about nothing," one woman says.
These people are not the exception and the scenes are not one-offs. The greatest refugee crisis of this century is unfolding 24 hours a day, and with hope fading quickly, all Ukrainians have left to hold on to now is each other.
