Propped up in her hospital bed, railway conductor Olha Zolotova speaks slowly and quietly as she talks about the day her train was hit by a Russian drone.
"When the Shahed [drone] hit I was covered in rubble. I was in the second car. People pulled me out," she says.
"My eyes went dark. There was fire everywhere, everything was burning, my hair caught fire a little. I was trapped."
Olha is a victim of Russia's increasingly frequent attacks on the Ukrainian railway system – vital infrastructure that keeps the country moving three and a half years since Moscow's full-scale invasion.
Ukraine's 21,000km-long (13,000-mile) railway system is not merely a mode of transport, it is a central pillar of Ukraine's war effort and a powerful national symbol of resilience.
Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine's trains in 'battle for the railways'
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