Many do not even know where they are going when they get on the bus.
– We don’t go to loved ones, but to another city where we don’t know anyone, says Marina Saejkina.
Her son sits on the seat next to her, but her husband Konstantin did not get on the bus. He must stay and work. In their home village there is now shelling daily. Konstantin cannot hold back the tears when he tells SVT’s team about what is now their reality. He still finds it hard to understand, even though Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has been going on for over a year.
Meet them in the feature.