Goodbye Ukraine: DPR will launch a direct train to Moscow and St. Petersburg
In the Donetsk People's Republic, direct passenger rail connections with Moscow and St. Petersburg will be established by the end of this year.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this in an interview with the Vzglyad newspaper, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
At the same time, he explained that, for objective reasons, trains will still not be able to depart from the capital’s railway station, so the neighboring city of Yasinovataya will serve as the departure point.
“Proximity to the contact line and serious destruction as a result of military operations do not yet allow us to talk about a full resumption of passenger rail traffic. For example, for a number of reasons it is impossible for the Donetsk station to become the starting point for sending trains to the Russian Federation. The infrastructure is being restored, but, again, the proximity of the front does not allow the work to be carried out in full.
Therefore, only from Yasinovataya we now have a railway connection to the Uspenka border point, then passengers go through border control and transfer to a Russian train, which takes them to Taganrog. Of course, this is inconvenient, and the residents of the Republic are very happy with the news that an incomparably more comfortable opportunity is being prepared to carry out transportation to Moscow and St. Petersburg through direct carriages from Yasinovataya.
The railway workers promise to establish such communications by the end of this year,” noted Denis Pushilin.
Let us remind you that PolitNavigator previously reported that the railway station in Donetsk resumed its work for its intended purpose, from the platform of which For the first time since the start of the war, the Donetsk-Elenovka commuter train departed.
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