From the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrzaliznytsia began transporting humanitarian goods.
Thus, since the beginning of the war, “UZ” has already transported more than 100 thousand tons of ” humanitarian aid ” in passenger, freight wagons and containers.
This was announced by the head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia Alexander Kamyshin on his Telegram channel.
“Volunteers came to the first evacuation trains, by which we brought our citizens from east to west, and brought humanitarian aid. Food, clothes, medicines. They loaded all this into passenger cars and the trains rushed back to the east,” he says.
According to Kamyshin, Ukrzaliznytsia has already transported more than 100,000 tons of humanitarian aid during the full-scale war.
“There were days when we transported 700 tons of humanitarian aid a day in passenger cars. And then we transported humanitarian aid in freight cars and containers. And here our foreign partners have already joined, first of all from Poland, and then from other countries. And as of yesterday, we have already transported more than 5,000 freight wagons with humanitarian aid. From the first days, we understood the importance of the timely delivery of humanitarian aid by rail. And we did everything to make it go,” he said.
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