The team decided it was important to project strength and fearlessness - to show that Ukrainians would not be terrorized. A command cell of six stayed in the center of Ukraine, all of them career railway men (yes, only men) who could close their eyes and recite the railway map down to the names and sizes of stations, how many tracks ran into each. He sent his wife and children and a majority of the Ukrzaliznytsia leadership team west. When the bombing started at 4 a.m., Kamyshin decided there was no time for the Western management techniques he had championed. He ran international marathons, including the New York City Marathon, collected fine red wines and was a devoted fan of the internet-famous restaurateur Salt Bae, whom he once met in Istanbul. Kamyshin had spent eight years on the management board of System Capital Management, an investment house belonging to Ukraine’s richest oligarch, Rinat Ahmetov, which oversaw the iron-ore and coal magnate’s freight trains. When he was hired, he espoused all the Western-approved jargon of railway reform that had been demanded of Ukraine for years - “higher freight yields,” “vertical integration,” “rolling-stock renewal,” “cargo turnover” and so on. Still in his trial period, he hadn’t even been offered a permanent contract. Kamyshin had been in charge of Ukrzaliznytsia for only six months. The implication of both photos was clear: The leaders, and their families, were staying put.
The head of passenger services, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, replied with a photo of his toddler taking a bath. The photo showed him tucking his two sons, 8 and 12, into bed in their apartment in central Kyiv. 23, when Kyiv was still rife with rumors and denials about the Russian troops and weaponry amassing along the border, Oleksandr Kamyshin, the 38-year-old chief executive of Ukrzaliznytsia - Ukraine’s national rail system - sent a photograph to the management’s Telegram group chat in an attempt to settle everyone’s nerves. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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