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.”