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Ukrainian authorities discuss to terminate railway communication with Russia, as the state's minister of infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan has reported.
"We consider now an option of closing the railway communication with Moscow," — Mr. Omelyan told on air of the local TV program, TSN website reports.
At the end of last year Mr. Omelyan said that the authorities issue of railway communication termination with Russia can be solved in 2018. He says that losses from such termination of Russian trains travelling through Ukrainian territory, will make one hryvnia (0,037 dollars).
At the same time the local railway transport state administration reported that the most profitable Ukrainian train route in 2017 was the route Kiev - Moscow, which made nearly six million dollars of income. At the same time distant range passenger traffic in Ukraine was in general more than unprofitable. The general losses were 3,5 billion hryvnias (about 130 million dollars).
Since October, 2015 there is no air traffic between the states at all, such move was the Kiev's initiative. Passenger trains still function, but their numbers have decreased by far in comparison with what was before the coup d'etat in Ukraine has happened.
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