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Someone threw into the atmosphere an expression that excites immediate impulses: "There are no eggs."

It was in the middle of a group of taxi drivers waiting for their turn in the taxi exchange at

of

.

"There are no eggs."

And a week later -last Friday- a convoy of 30 taxis from the

He set out for Poland to bring food, medicine, diapers and clothing here.

A shipment of aid -20 tons- in support of the NGOs that have been working for 18 days at different points on the Polish border with Ukraine -every hour more disorganized-.

There are 2.5 million terrified people (official figure) displaced by this infamous war (like all) unleashed by Russia and that until now devastates an invaded country.

The siege of

, the destruction of

, the siege of

and so many sinister scenarios left by the advance of the Russian army suggest that the number of forced emigrants will double.

Pain is now the maximum contamination of this part of

.

Also fear.

And the uncertainty that Putin has inoculated the world.

At the head of the expedition is

, from the

.

A kind, lean, fireproof guy.

"We are clear about what we are going for. And the response of the people when it has been spectacular, but moving a caravan like this is not easy. Inconveniences arise every time. Although the biggest problem is the route changes that are suggested to us. Our idea The original idea was to reach the city of

, where one of the most important departure points for Ukrainian citizens to Poland is located, but we will not be able to get there".

This city of 66,000 inhabitants now hosts 400,000 refugees.

Chaos makes signs.

The border is no longer a safe place.

The nearby Russian attacks and the women and children trafficking mafias, plus the human vultures that feed on looting, force us to decide on unforeseen alternatives on the fly: "They proposed to us later that we better go to

, but yesterday [for Saturday] , in the middle of the day, they asked us to go up to

. We have come across quite a few military trucks and some tanks that are going in the opposite direction to us... They say that if we bring the convoy closer to the border they cannot guarantee our safety, So we go to the capital and from there we will go to a refugee center that is a few kilometers from the city.

“We are clear about what we are going to do”, resolves the spokesman for the expedition

Fúnez talks at all hours with the mobile.

He improvises an urgent diplomatic trigonometry by exchanging messages and conversation with embassy staff, NGO representatives and journalists sent to the conflict zone.

Each one gives the precise information about him.

And they all agree on the same: not to the border.

He records and decides.

29 cars await his instructions.

He notes in a notebook the route of each day and the pending calls.

They left Madrid at 3:00 p.m., four days ago.

Almost 70 professionals (women and men) are distributed in the vehicles, with two drivers per car to take turns.

They have been driving for 30 hours with brief stops to refuel and eat something: tortilla, bread, sausage, water.

Gasoline is shot.

This occupies a good time of the conversations.

Four borders have passed:

and Poland.

They all go together as one body.

There are moments of euphoria and peaks of silence.

Every change in the itinerary excites guesswork.

And quickens the pulses.

But everyone is convinced that they should make this trip.

Everyone safe.

Everyone silent.

One by one.

In the rear they bring a motorhome.

They sleep, when they sleep, in highway hotels.

The purpose is to leave the merchandise donated by associations of taxi drivers, individuals and businesses, and make the return trip with a hundred displaced people, women and children, carefully documented.

Another 3,000 kilometers to the reception center created to house refugees from Ukraine.

"This will be the hardest: the return with the mothers and children," says Fúnez.

"I imagine the pain they bring. The anguish. The bewilderment. They have gone out with what they had at hand. They have gone out alone. They have left their brothers, their husbands and their parents in a war. That is why our obligation is to give them peace of mind, give them support, give them security on a two-day road trip to a country that, perhaps, most of them do not know".

That moment will start today, Monday.

And we will do it with them in this convoy that has arrived avoiding inconveniences, shocks and insomnia, sometimes too many for a strictly noble purpose: out of principle, out of solidarity, out of honor.

They rested on Saturday in various hotels in

.

The convoy is impressive: a long mechanical caterpillar moving at about 100 kilometers per hour.

Impossible to overtake her with a single stroke of the accelerator.

The taxi drivers of Madrid carry the signs of fatigue on the outside.

And there is still the return.

Tuned Spanish radios dispense bad news about this war.

They keep their spirits up with jokes and humor on the

with which they communicate from car to car.

At some point, supply difficulties in filling the tanks at gas stations along the way triggered fears that the convoy could be reduced.

Or turn around.

But no.

Not even if gasoline reaches sky-high prices.

Several mechanical breakdowns also weighed down the march.

Everything is proving to be difficult, but these 70 taxi drivers (women and men) are sure that they can't return home, now they can't, without the hundreds of anguished passengers who still don't know.

At 15:37 yesterday they entered Warsaw.

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