The route was not without hazard, though. Lights were turned off at night to comply with curfew rules. And, put truthfully, to make it harder for Russia to blow up moving trains. Moscow had repeatedly hurled missiles at the Ukrainian railway infrastructure, killing fifty-nine people that April as they waited to be evacuated from the eastern city of Kramatorsk. The prime ministers and presidents who traveled to Kyiv—whether you considered them visionaries or idiots—showed a degree of bravery that went beyond conventional politics.
