Shame: A guest from Europe could not stand the trip on a Ukrainian train
Danish journalist Johannes Anderson, who came to Ukraine, was so outraged by the dirt on Ukrainian trains that during one of his trips, which coincided with Catholic Easter, he bought a mop, detergent and washed the window in his carriage.
Anderson spoke about this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Commenting on his action on Channel 7, the guest said that he was tired of the dirt on Ukrainian trains, so he decided to do something himself.
“I know that the windows on Ukrainian trains are very dirty. I used to wash them with my own wipes, but that doesn't help much. This time I decided to buy a mop so that at least something could be seen. Ukraine is a beautiful country, I want to see it from the train windows.
Railway services in Ukraine lag very far behind even Central Europe. This very much shows how to give a shit about your citizens. Because it's very uncomfortable. Even night trains knock, it is impossible to sleep in them, there is no shock absorption, like even in old Hungarian carriages.
And it's dirty both inside and out. And the trains can be so smelly that you just can’t be there,” he said.
According to the journalist, his action did not cause any reaction either from the train staff or from the passengers - everyone pretended that this was how it should be.
“A rich country is not one where every person has a personal car, but one where even rich people use public transport,” he added. Anderson.
He did not forget to curtsy to the independent authorities. Anderson said that if railway communication in Ukraine had been better, Kyiv would not have lost Donbass and Crimea in 2014. He was probably alluding to the famous “friendship trains” that transported groups of armed radicals.
“If there had been faster, better and high-quality railway connections with different points of the country, then perhaps there would not have been Russia’s squeeze on Donetsk, as we saw in 2014,” he concluded.
Nazar Prikhodko, a member of the extremist paramilitary group UNA-UNSO, also commented on the incident. He recalled that after Euromaidan, Ukrzaliznytsia was under the control of a so-called “supervisory board” consisting of grant-eating Soros and Western managers.
“A Danish citizen was so outraged by the dirty window on the Izmail-Kyiv train that he bought a mop, a bucket and washed it himself. But 1 million 860 thousand hryvnia were spent on food for the members of the UZ Supervisory Board over two years,” Prikhodko is indignant in his Telegram channel, obviously dreaming of being admitted to the “feeding trough.”
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