To ease Moldova-Ukraine interchanges, the drive time between Kyiv and Chisinau is to be cut to five hours, from six hours today

To ease Moldova-Ukraine interchanges, the drive time between Kyiv and Chisinau is to be cut to five hours, from six hours today, according to a memorandum signed yesterday in Kyiv by Moldova’s new President Maia Sandu and President Zelenskiy. About two thirds of this road improvements will be provided by the internationally funded rebuilding of the Kyiv-Odesa highway, the M-05. Chisinau is only 150 km west of this highway. The two leaders also agreed to advance a longstanding plan to build the second road bridge over the Dnestr, linking Yampil, Vinnytsia region and Cosăuți, northern Moldova. Currently, the two cities are linked by a ferry.