Since early August, Russia has launched nearly 300 strikes on Ukrainian Railways facilities. Railway workers manage to restore the infrastructure in about four hours on average each day, resuming train services. This was reported by the Minister of Community and Territorial Development, Oleksiy Kuleba, on Facebook.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 221 railway workers have been injured, and 37 have died while performing their duties.

“Thanks to the railway workers, even after massive nighttime shelling, trains continue to operate. Where tracks or stations are damaged, combined routes are being used — train and bus,” he stated.

“Recently, six new carriages, made at the Kryukov Carriage Works, were put into service. Five of them were sent to Kharkiv, and one to Dnipro. These are frontline routes where the system is under the most strain,” Kuleba reported.

These carriages are the final ones in a batch of 66 ordered by Ukrainian Railways last year, the minister noted.

More than 160 Ukrainian companies are involved in the production, including those relocated from temporarily occupied territories, he added.