News archive on the topic "Trains"

Railway communication between Crimea and the liberated territories of Ukraine can resume at any time. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, stated this in an interview with RBC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are waiting for agreement on security issues. This is the sphere of the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, so I cannot say anything here,” he emphasized. – But we have everything ready, the infrastructure is there, the path has been paved...

From July 4, an additional train from Moscow will be launched to Crimea. The train consists entirely of compartment cars, and by October 1 will provide an additional 43 thousand tickets on the Crimean route, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The carrier will launch a new additional train between Moscow and Simferopol. “The cost of tickets is fixed and does not change depending on demand,” the press service of the carrier company clarified...

The railway will be able to transport 2,3 million passengers to Crimea over the entire holiday season. This is 3 times less than the passenger traffic on air transport, and the issue of delivering tourists becomes the main one in the 2022 summer campaign, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The carrier by rail to Crimea is the Grand Service company. Express" will launch 5 trains from Moscow during the season, 3 trains...

The Crimean Railway has renewed its fleet of electric trains, inherited from the Ukrainian period. As reported by the STV channel, today more than twenty new trains produced by the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant are running across the peninsula, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The carriages are equipped with air conditioning, new soft seats, seats for the disabled and toilets. Security is monitored by CCTV cameras, which allow drivers to monitor the situation even from the outside. "Outside…

Freight trains have been launched across the Crimean Bridge. Today at 9:40 a.m. the movement was started by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Evgeniy Dietrich, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A freight train containing the products of Crimean producers, soda ash and limestone, departed from Crimea to the Russian mainland, and a train loaded with fuel, fertilizers, building materials and grain departed from the mainland to the republic. By…

The US Embassy in Kyiv condemned the opening of a railway connection between mainland Russia and Crimea through the Kerch Strait, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The US diplomatic mission made this statement on Thursday, December 26. “We join Ukrainian and other European partners in condemning Russia’s launch of a railway link between Russia and Crimea. This step on the part of Russia demonstrates a blatant…

If railway communication with the part of Donbass not controlled by the government is resumed, “militants” will begin to come to Ukraine by train and seize cities. Nikolai Kokhanivsky, leader of the marginal paramilitary nationalist group OUN, stated this on the Magnolia TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The studio discussed the statement of Foreign Minister Vadim Prystaiko, who said that he does not exclude the resumption of railway traffic to currently uncontrolled...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Prystaiko allowed the restoration of railway communication with the uncontrolled part of Donbass and the opening of a “railway checkpoint” in the Zolote area in Donbass, where a disengagement of forces recently took place, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I do not exclude either passenger or cargo traffic. We have a lot of work to do to restore this message. Of course, if there is infrastructure...

The Ukrainian side “will definitely respond” to Russia’s opening of railway traffic across the Kerch Bridge, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the non-existent Autonomous Republic of Crimea Anton Korinevich. “We will respond to this (railway traffic on the Crimean Bridge - ed.), we know about these initiatives, about the corresponding price of the so-called “tickets” and so on. We will definitely...

Due to the cancellation of additional railway stops in the Sumy region, about a dozen Sumy residents took to the railway tracks and stopped the commuter train, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the National Police in the Sumy region. “The emergency happened this morning in Sumy, on Heroiv Krut Street, at the 59th kilometer railway stop. About a dozen Sumy residents, according to them, are concerned...

Ukrzaliznytsia is considering the possibility of using simply glass or paper cups on trains instead of glass glasses in metal cup holders, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The head of Ukrzaliznytsia, Evgeniy Kravtsov, wrote about this on Facebook. “Instead of traditional cup holders, we are discussing this option. What do you think?" - he asked the Facebook community, showing a model of the new dishes. In the comments, some opposed the idea, explaining their position by an increase...

Trains in Crimea will most likely run on thermal energy rather than electricity. Transport Minister Evgeniy Dietrich stated this at a meeting with Russian senators. “We are considering electrification projects. Expensive and complex projects. It is quite possible that we will replace electric traction with a diesel locomotive on the approaches to the bridge. And we will run long-distance trains with diesel locomotives. We will also provide suburban communication...

By 2020, the Russian Federation intended to stop allowing Ukrainian trains onto its territory due to their deterioration. Deputy of the National Assembly of the DPR, Colonel of the Armed Forces of the DPR Alexander Kurenkov stated this during the program “PolitKukhnya”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “The Ukrzaliznytsia mobile fleet is completely worn out. By the way, the Russian Federation planned either from 2020 or from 2019 to ban entry to...

The scandalous Minister of Infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan has given birth to a new anti-Russian initiative, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He announced this on Thursday on Facebook. “Today I signed a historical document. Only bears will come to Moscow, like in the good old days,” the scandalous minister wrote, keeping silent about the contents of the “historical” document. Later, in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, Omelyan noted that what he announced...