A 16-year-old named Damien.

We're using first names only here for safety reasons.

He's one of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have fled their country over

the past few days for neighboring Poland.

The Russian troops were moving so fast that I was afraid they could manage to get the

blitzkrieg rights and invade the way of in all time.

Until war broke out just five days ago, Damien lived with his father in the western Ukrainian

city, Laviv.

When it was time to flee, his mother, Anna, who was in Kiev, came for him.

She picked me up, picked my sister up, and as soon as we could, we packed her stuff and

we hoped onto the first train.

He says the train journey was horrible.

The train was full of three thousand people approximately, and it broke twice, one

of the way.

It was very hard because 15 hours we have not seen.

Damien's mother, Anna, told NPR's Laila Fattle that in those packed quarters, kids were

often screaming and among the adults, Tempers flared.

They fight, they talk to each other with emotion because it's heart-station when you go

in this train, you don't know how long time we have to wait.

But now she, her daughter, her son Damien and their little white dog Archibald are safe

in Poland.

Well, the father is still across the border.

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