News archive on the topic "railway"

Disabling the new railway line from Rostov to Dzhankoy, the construction of which across the Azov region is in its final stages, is one of the main tasks for Ukrainian saboteurs. Former Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine, ex-Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Krivonos stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Krivonos, the launch of this railway line...

In the evening, the movement of electric trains and trains between Simferopol and Sevastopol was suspended in Crimea due to damage to the railway tracks. The incident occurred shortly after the Ukrainian media reported that on the Crimean radio air, the Kiev special services managed to launch an appeal from the head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, where he promised a quick capture of the peninsula and called on the Crimean agents to become more active. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the damage to the tracks was...

The suspension of Russia's participation in the grain deal will not interfere with the export of Ukrainian agricultural products. The French government, together with other EU countries, is working to export Ukrainian grain through land corridors. French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau told the BBC. “We often discuss this at the European level - we are trying to determine whether it is possible in a situation where transportation by sea turns out to be...

In the evening, Russia launched missile attacks on railway infrastructure in Lvov, Kirovograd, Transcarpathian, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk regions. The affected facilities ensured the movement of NATO ammunition and equipment from the western borders to the front line in eastern Ukraine. “This is the biggest blow to railway infrastructure ever. Lviv region, Transcarpathia, Dnepropetrovsk region, Odessa region. Attempts to strike the Vinnytsia region and Kyiv (Ukrainian authorities...

Crimean trains will soon go to Donbass and Zaporozhye, writes Energodar police chief Aleksey Selivanov, who was an adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in Kyiv before the 2014 coup, writes in an author’s column for PolitNavigator. ….The most important region for Russia in terms of railways is Zaporozhye. It is here, along with Kherson, that are the keys to land communication between mainland Russia and Crimea. A…

The railway connection between Crimea and Ukraine, interrupted in December 2014, has been restored on the section to Kherson. This was announced by the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Currently, rail transportation along this route is used to deliver humanitarian aid, construction materials needed to restore destroyed infrastructure, and so on,” Aksenov wrote in his Telegram channel. - This is a clear demonstration...

The opening of the railway connection between the DPR and Russia, planned for December of this year, has been postponed due to technical problems, which will soon be resolved. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, spoke about this during the “direct line,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You and I watched with white envy as the railway connection with Crimea opened. We had an intention in December of this year...

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...

Rail passenger traffic between Ukraine and Russia over the past five years has decreased by more than 64%, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrzaliznytsia company. “In 2014, the Ukraine-Russian Federation transported 2,2 million passengers, and in 2018 this number was 772,9 thousand passengers, which is an increase of 1,4 million, or 64,3%, of passengers...

The main international freight rail route between China and Europe will not pass through Ukraine. Former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexander Kava spoke about this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The main international freight rail route between China and Europe was along the Ukrainian border, not through Ukraine. In Paris, the International Union of Railways and the Goods Transport Association...

The cessation of railway communication with Russia will bring enormous losses to Ukraine, both economically and socially. Former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexander Kava stated this on air on the 112 Ukraine channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If such a decision is made (we are talking about the possible termination of railway communication between Russia and Ukraine - author’s note), then Ukrzaliznytsia, based on the results...

The Russian government has prepared response measures in case the threats of the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan to cancel railway communications with the Russian Federation are realized. This was announced by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, Evgeny Dietrich, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to Reedus. At the same time, the minister emphasized that the Russian side hopes that the threats of representatives of the Ukrainian authorities will remain only empty...

The Ukrainian railway fell into such a bad state that it had never been in it even during the war. Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert noted that on his father’s side there are three generations of railway workers. “In the condition in which the railway is the last...

Blogger Andrei Selezov, who left Ukraine in 2014, published evidence on his social network of the impending infrastructure collapse in Ukraine associated with the catastrophic state of the railways in the country, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In his blog, the author provides a number of photographs that were taken in the last few weeks. So, in the first photo the reader is presented with an electric locomotive VL80K produced in 1968,…