In the midst of a blizzard sweeping across central Ukraine last month, Iryna Vlasenko had a dilemma.
She needed to get her 7-year-old daughter, who was seriously ill, to a children’s hospital in Kyiv. But she couldn’t get to the main railway station in Khmelnytskyi, more than 300 kilometers (more than 180 miles) from the capital.
So she texted Ukraine’s railway operator in desperation. Could the train stop in her village, Korzivtsi?
A short time later, she got a reply. “Hello! We will stop the train in Korzivtsi.”
Vlasenko was able to get her daughter on the train the next morning.
Her story is one of many about that show the…