“Ukrzaliznyzya” promises to reconstruct the infrastructure of the Donetsk Railway

The Administration of the Ukrainian Railway announced its intentions to reconstruct destroyed infrastructure in Donbass by the middle of December at their own expenses. The Interfax-Ukraine reports that at the meeting of 24 October the Ukrainian Railway promised to reconstruct destroyed infrastructure in Donbass in order to develop transport communication of the regional enterprises with Ukraine. ‘This information is an absurd swindle and is similar to the well-known fable: “The bull was lingering around the ponds with a plow; and a fly sat on his horns”, commented  the interim Transport Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic Semen Kuzmenko. He backed his estimation with the statement that the Donetsk Railway wasn’t controlled by Kiev, ‘It’s necessary to mark once more that the administrative management of the Donetsk Railway is in Donetsk.

The system is arranged in such a way that all structural subdivisions execute orders which come from the management which is the Donetsk Railway. It functions under the control of our department’, added Semen Kuzmenko. Also the interim Head of the department reported that, according to official reports, the Ukrzaliznyzya provided repair works just to such points as Krasniy Liman, a hospital in the town, a railway hostel and the railway station of Slavyansk for the time when large points with railway junctions were occupied by the Ukrainian troops. ‘All technical services of the railway life-sustaining keep on working under the authority of the Donetsk Railway. Seeing this, it’s difficult to believe in good intentions of the enterprise of neighbour country, as all the objects that are to be reconstructed were destroyed during the Ukrainian Army attacks at Donbass. There are documental proves of this. Moreover, we can expect the Ukrzaliznyzya to present an amazing bill for its benefactions’, commented the interim Transport Minister of the DPR Semen Kuzmenko.