After starting daily train service last month between Kyiv and the frontline city of Avdiivka in Donetsk region, Ukrzaliznytsia now plans to extend train service to within several hundred meters of Crimea’s two main Crimea checkpoints

After starting daily train service last month between Kyiv and the frontline city of Avdiivka in Donetsk region, Ukrzaliznytsia now plans to extend train service to within several hundred meters of Crimea’s two main Crimea checkpoints – Armyansk and Chonhar. By running Kherson region trains down to the checkpoints, UZ could pick up and deliver passengers traveling to and from the Russia-controlled peninsula. “We are working to restore communication with the territories adjacent to the Crimea,” Volodomyr Zhmak, CEO of Ukraine’s state railroad, tells Interfax-Ukraine. “Unfortunately, we cannot enter Crimea itself.”