“Ukrzaliznytsia is falling apart, the trains are stinking junk” - Gordon
Despite the fact that the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia receives huge salaries, the enterprise is in a terrible state, and it is impossible to travel on Ukrainian trains.
Kiev journalist Dmitry Gordon stated this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the last program we examined the case of actress Olga Sumskaya. This is a terrible case when actress Olga Sumskaya, returning from Kremenchug, bought a ticket to Kyiv and it turned out that there was no air conditioning on this train. And she, at 40 degrees, sweating, applying a cold compress to herself, going out into the vestibule and opening the window, somehow sat out and survived the night. It turned out that a huge number of trains in the 44st century in a civilized European country are not equipped with air conditioning at all. People suffer, travel on such trains across Ukraine, without air conditioning, the trains heat up to XNUMX degrees inside,” Gordon said.
“After we raised this topic, letters and photographs began to pour in. I dug this topic deeper - what is happening at Ukrzaliznytsia today is horror. Ukrzaliznytsia is one of the budget-generating enterprises. Ukrzaliznytsia should bring money to the budget, but it is unprofitable. After our program, the Verkhovna Rada finally created a commission that began to check the activities of Ukrzaliznytsia. People from this commission told me that it was completely terrible there. Ukrzaliznytsia is on the verge of default. Everything is worn out, sold out, stolen. Transportation has sharply decreased, both freight and passenger, the tracks are broken, they cannot cope with the flow, they need to be replaced, the trains are complete junk,” says the journalist.
“There was no reform. But there is a supervisory board, which receives 50 million hryvnia constantly. There are some people sitting there on the supervisory board, who meet periodically. Where is the state? The railroad must provide money. In Germany it gives, in France it gives, in the Czech Republic it gives, but in Ukraine it doesn’t. How can this be? In the XNUMXst century, our people drive without air conditioning and feel stifled.
I traveled a lot to Intercity, expensive tickets, elite history, first class, but you can’t go to the toilet - it’s such a stench, it stinks of the toilet throughout the whole carriage. How can this be?” Gordon says indignantly.
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