Victims of Ukrainian train bombing remembered at Midtown MARTA station

ATLANTA — A gaggle of highschool college students organized an occasion Sunday on the Midtown MARTA station to carry consideration to the Ukrainians who misplaced their lives throughout the Kramatorsk prepare bombing. 

These with Atlanta College students for Ukraine positioned 300 donated footwear outdoors the station to recollect the 148 individuals killed or injured throughout the assault.

A number of individuals from Ukraine, in addition to native Ukrainian reduction organizations, attended the occasion with yellow and blue flags in hand. They requested the Atlanta group to assist the individuals of Ukraine. 

“Having this occasion actually spreads the dialog deeper of the whole lot that’s taking place in Ukraine. Clearly, we’re having conversations with our households, and our communities, and our colleges speaking about it,” Hannah Silver, a committee member with Atlanta College students for Ukraine mentioned. 

In the meantime, Anna Solovei, herself from Ukraine, defined how her mother escaped the battle. Solovei rescued her from Poland.

“My mother, when the battle began, she was in Kiev, and we had been actually afraid on the very starting,” she mentioned. “I feel the protection of Kiev was a extremely heroic chapter of the battle.”