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Closing transport links with the Russian Federation will bring profit to Ukraine. Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan stated this at a briefing in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Regarding transport links with the Russian Federation and possible losses. I want to say again that there are no losses. Moreover, there are now losses in domestic passenger transport services in Ukraine. We have a huge...
“Ukrzaliznytsia” ignored the request of the so-called “permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” Boris Babin to organize passenger rail service with a station on the border with Crimea. Babin stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They ask: what does Crimea have to do with it? I can answer. When we raised the question of organizing a safe legal railway service...
The cancellation of railway connections with the Russian Federation could hit 11 million ethnic Ukrainians living in the Russian Federation and having Russian citizenship. Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, nationalist Vladimir Yavorivsky said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to one of the founders of Ukrainian “independence”, in addition to three million guest workers, this is exactly the number of Ukrainians in...
The so-called “representative office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,” located in Kherson and not related to the peninsula, supported the proposal of the Minister of Infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan to stop passenger rail traffic with Russia. The first deputy of the fake representative office, Izet Gdanov, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We support the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine regarding the proposal to stop...
“Ukrzaliznytsia” is sending a rusty, dilapidated train from Kherson to Moscow in order to demonstrate its disrespect for the “Muscovites”. The local resource “Tavria News” writes about this with irony, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. The publication publishes photos of the train with cars that are in a deplorable condition, as well as sleepers littered with garbage bags at the railway station in Kherson. “If it is not possible to cancel the train,...
The statement by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladimir Omelyan about the possible termination of passenger rail traffic with Russia was intended to divert public attention from President Poroshenko’s trip to Europe. Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, “the crazy PR stuff that Omelyan generates” is to some extent...
The initiative of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladimir Omelyan, who threatened to cancel the railway connection with the Russian Federation, is fraught with serious problems for Ukraine. Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS Countries Vladimir Evseev writes about this in Izvestia, believing that the statement of the Ukrainian minister caused misunderstanding in the EU, whose interests for the Ukrainian leadership are more important than their own, and therefore the very next day Omelyan clarified that Ukraine would stop...
Kharkiv residents froze in anticipation of new problems that could be created for them by the Ukrainian authorities, who are talking about closing direct transport links with Russia. “We are now considering closing the railway connection with Moscow,” said Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladimir Omelyan on “Snidanka with 1+1.” Then the deputy permanent representative of the Ukrainian president in Crimea, Izet Gdanov, appeared on the air of the 112 Ukraine TV channel...
