Evacuation trains from war zone pour into Lviv in western Ukraine

People look on from aboard a train heading to Poland as they flee Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the train station in Lviv, Ukraine March 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Thousands of women and children, many weeping and numb with exhaustion, arrived in Lviv in western Ukraine on Saturday as the state railway put on more trains to rescue people from fierce Russian attacks on eastern cities.

"I've barely slept for 10 days," said Anna Filatova, who had arrived with her two daughters from Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, near its eastern border with Russia. "The Russians want to flatten Kharkiv. It was impossible to stay there anymore."