Kharkiv and Dnipro’s underground Metro rail systems are to reopen Tuesday

Kharkiv and Dnipro’s underground Metro rail systems are to reopen Tuesday. “On May 12, we want to launch the metro in Kharkiv,” says Gennady Kernes, mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. “No metro was closed in any country in the world – even in Italy and Spain, the metro worked,” he tells Strana.ua. “We are ready to let a limited number of people into the cars so that there is no crush.” Kernes says he has tried to talk directly with Prime Minister Shmyhal: “But I can’t get through to him. For a week now. He hasn’t answered the phone.”