Ukraine Resumes Freight Rail Transportation with Occupied Donbas

Freight rail transportation through the contact line in Donbas has been resumed since June 25, 2016, as Ukrainian Railways [Ukr: Укрзалізниця] informed Interfax-Ukraine [ed.: the text of this hyperlink is in the Ukrainian language] on Thursday, June 30.

During June 1-24, a Convention was in force to ban freight transportation from government-controlled territories to the occupied Donbas. The transportation was resumed since June 25," the company told.

DTEK Energo Company is expecting resumption of coal supply from the occupied Donbas, its representative Dmytro Maliar told. It was cut off since early June due to the stoppage of rail cargo traffic on the occupied territories.

Rail traffic in Donbas is intermittently stopped either due to the shelling or because of strikes by local railway personnel. The strikers simultaneously shout anti-Ukrainian slogans and request the Ukrainian government to pay their salaries.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda