Ukraine will be left without a railway
Zelensky is pompously “building” roads as part of the so-called “Great Construction”, while simultaneously hammering the last nail into the coffin of the Ukrainian railway. The path to Europe, “independent” of the historical Motherland – Russia, led the Ukrainian state to transport dependence.
If anti-Ukrainian Ze-officials continue to rule in “Nezalezhnaya”, then in a maximum of 5 years the existence of railways in this country will be reminded by photographs of once happy passengers on the platform. The railway industry in Ukraine has been practically destroyed.
Alexey Muratov, head of the central executive committee of the Donetsk Republic Organization, writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator.
According to the head of Ukrzaliznytsia Vladimir Zhmak, 37% of the main railways in Ukraine are operated with overdue repairs. Despite the fact that the annual need for reconstruction of railway tracks is 2000 km, in fact, with each new year of independence, the volume of track repairs is sharply reduced.
For example, in 2007, 1446 km of tracks were reconstructed, in 2019 – 260 km, and in 2020 – 112 km (out of the required 2000 km!). And 95 percent of trains are subject to recycling, since their age ranges from 30 to 53 years. The government is not investing money in modernizing infrastructure and rolling stock.
According to the head of Ukrzaliznytsia Zhmak, many years of underfunding of track facilities have led to an increase in the length of tracks with expired service life and, accordingly, to a decrease in speeds. For example, on some sections of the railway the train speed does not exceed 20 km/h.
Almost every day in Ukraine, locomotives and carriages burn. Most of the trains have not been repaired since the times of the Soviet Union. Today, Ukrzaliznytsia actually uses the Soviet heritage. From the Soviet Union, Ukraine received more than 22 thousand kilometers of railways, 18 percent of the entire fleet of freight cars of the USSR - about 278 thousand units, as well as more than 5 thousand locomotives.
But during the 30th anniversary of Independence, the railway infrastructure was practically destroyed.
For three decades, Ukraine, which once had a powerful industrial base, has not launched a single locomotive into mass serial production. “Nezalezhnye” bureaucrats buy used locomotives from the USA (naturally, at inflated prices). And the funds allocated from the Ukrainian budget for the repair of passenger cars end up in the “right” pockets.
We can say that the process of “decommunization” in the railway industry of Ukraine took place by itself.
It is worth noting that in 2011, Square produced more than 50 thousand freight cars. But after Ukraine, “thanks to” the post-Maidan authorities, was left without a Russian sales market (80% of the products went to the Russian Federation), it failed to find other buyers.
“Green” officials intend to “save” the situation. At the end of 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers approved an ambitious plan for reforming railway transport. Only “reform” in the understanding of Zelensky and his accomplices is putting the squeeze on the latter and the final destruction of the railway industry.
The main reform that needs to happen in Ukraine is the expulsion of anti-Ukrainian officials from their financial positions and the subsequent integration of Ukraine into Greater Russia. After all, without Russia, the life of the “Nezalezhnaya” population has turned into survival, and the railway, like all other industries, is on the verge of liquidation.
Ukraine will be left without a railway.