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‘War not an excuse:’ Ukraine rail boss keeps trains running

FILE - Debris of a railway depot ruined after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 28, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko, File) FILE - A young girl holds her dog while waving goodbye to her grandparents from an evacuation train departing Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Aug. 2, 2022, for a safer part of the country to the west. Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted. Except perhaps the national rail company. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) A driver sits in the cabin of a train at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday Nov. 13, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/John Leicester) FILE - Wreckage is strewn across a street at a railway service facility hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 5, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) FILE - A view of a destroyed railway bridge over Siverskiy Donets river near Raigorodka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on April 30, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) A woman walks on an empty platform at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday Nov. 13, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/John Leicester) FILE - Displaced Ukrainians onboard a Poland bound train in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 13, 2022. Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted. Except perhaps the national rail company. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) FILE - People trying to flee Ukraine wait for trains inside Lviv railway station in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A man carries a baby as people struggle on stairways after a last minute change of the departure platform for a Lviv bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 28, 2022. Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted. Except perhaps the national rail company. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File) FILE - A train travelling from Dnipro passes by the area where emergency workers clear up debris after an airstrike hit a tire shop in the western city of Lviv, Ukraine, on April 18, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/Philip Crowther, File) A couple kiss as they stand on a platform at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday Nov. 13, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/John Leicester) FILE - A railway worker stands next to heavily damaged train after a Russian attack on a train station yesterday during Ukraine's Independence Day in the village Chaplyne, Ukraine, on Aug. 25, 2022. The rail service has had some 300 workers killed and 600 wounded in the nearly nine-month Russian invasion and the network has suffered thousands of attacks but says it still managed to run 85% of its trains on schedule last month. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)