Vilnius railway station has set up a photo exhibition, displaying images from the war in Ukraine to passengers on Russian transit trains between Moscow and Kaliningrad.
"We aim to spread the message about the war waged by the Russian government. We have selected images that emotionally convey the harsh reality that the people of Ukraine are currently facing," Jonas Staselis, president of the Lithuanian Press Photographers' Club, said in a statement issued by the state-owned railway service.
"With this exhibition, we want to spread the message as widely as possible that it is impossible to escape from reality in a free country,” he added.
Staselis thanked photographers Maxim Dondyuk and Evgeniy Maloletka who sent photos from Kyiv and Mariupol.
The photos, which show people injured during the war, mourning people, as well as destroyed buildings, also bear inscriptions in Russian: "Today, Putin is killing the peaceful population of Ukraine. Do you approve of this?"
Transit trains between Moscow and Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave wedged between Poland and Lithuania, run every day. There are also transit trains between Adler and Saint Petersburg.
Vilnius railway station plans to occasionally slow down the trains to allow the passengers to see the photo exhibition.
"We see a great sense in using the LTG space to host an exhibition that reflects the images of the Russian government's war against Ukraine,” said Egidijus Lazauskas, CEO of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG).
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