: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Russia Forges Ahead With New Southern Rail Bypass of Ukraine

On September 21, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree to construct a railway line allowing trains in southern Russian to bypass Ukrainian territory. The new 75-mile double-track electrified railway will replace the existing one, 16 miles of which traverses Ukraine’s war-torn Luhansk region. Several short stretches of rail lines linking Moscow to southern Russia currently cut through Ukrainian territory multiple times, exiting and reentering Russia’s Voronezh and Rostov oblasts, a situation that the new bypass will remedy. Building the bypass is already well underway, with 60 percent of the groundwork completed. The new railway is expected to be …read more

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