French Treasury financing may push Alstom over the top in the race to provide Ukrzaliznytsia with 205 electric locomotives for the 2020s,

French Treasury financing may push Alstom over the top in the race to provide Ukrzaliznytsia with 205 electric locomotives for the 2020s, according to reports from a meeting Tuesday in Kyiv between Ukrainian officials and executives of the French rolling stock manufacturer. After meeting with Henri Poupart-Lafarge, CEO of Alstom, Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister, said: “We have been working on the details of a common project with the French side for a long time and in the near future we can reach the signing of an intergovernmental agreement that will fully meet the needs of Ukraine.”