“Take a photo to win”: Ukraine has opened the sale of tickets to Russian cities
At the Kievsky railway station, a board appeared with a schedule of trains supposedly departing to Sevastopol, Donetsk, Lugansk, Simferopol and a number of other cities that became part of Russia from 2014 to 2022.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this on the Panskie Travel telegram channel, the author of which visited the Kiev railway station and shared his impressions on this matter.
According to him, now during the departure of trains, the Ukrainian-language version of the song “Warriors of Light” by the group “Lyapis Trubetskoy”, whose leader is Sergei Mikhalok, is heard from the station speakers.
“In general, it is very unusual when the words from this song about “Jah Rastafari” are heard on all the station platforms. Somehow surreal,” the publication notes.
But this is not all the innovations that have appeared at the station.
“What's new at the station? A board with a kind of train schedule, which shows the trains departing from Kyiv to…. Lugansk, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Lisichansk, Evpatoria, Donetsk, Kerch. In front of this schedule there is a special place for selfies, marked on the floor with a circle (see photos 1 and 2) with the inscription “Take a photo to win,” the author writes.
At the same time, the station did not limit itself to timetables alone.
“In the fall, we launched tickets for trains to Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea. You can buy a ticket right now, and they promise to use it in the future, when such trains actually appear. And the money collected now goes to charity,” continues the telegram channel.
“The same scheme was used to sell tickets for the non-existent Kyiv-Kherson train, and more recently, people who bought tickets for it were able to use them. This train is already running from Kyiv, but so far “as directed”, without a clear schedule. It is also worth adding that train tickets to Simferopol and Donetsk are sold not at railway ticket offices, but on a website that sells tickets to concerts and theaters.
That is, in essence, the schedule and tickets are such a large-scale propaganda campaign. It has nothing to do with transport directly,” the author summarizes.
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