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She will work on supporting Ukrzaliznytsia: locomotives, financing, energy resilience, and modernization.
Minister of Recovery, Infrastructure, and Transport Mykola Kalashnik said that during the meeting of the Carpathian Eight they agreed to form another international format in addition to the Coalition of the Willing and the Coalition of Capacities — the Railway Coalition. Its aim will be to support Ukrzaliznytsia. He stressed that this is not about implementing individual decisions, but about a systemic aid mechanism that will include locomotives, financing, energy resilience, and modernization.
Improving the locomotive fleet will become the first area of work for this association, Kalashnik says, because railways must not only recover what was lost but also gain new capabilities. As a result, 100 million dollars from the URTF trust fund are planned to be used to purchase used locomasers for Ukrzaliznytsia on foreign markets.
"Russia systematically attacks the railway and purposefully strikes locomotives. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, 533 locomotives of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC and 75 locomotives of private industrial enterprises have been damaged," Kalashnik noted.
The second stage is strengthening Ukrzaliznytsia's energy resilience, Kalashnik said.
"As part of the summit, a principled agreement was reached with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to allocate 130 million euros within UZ Energy for critical needs and the railroad's energy resilience. The corresponding agreements are planned to be signed by the end of September," added Kalashnik.
As a reminder, 18 in September President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented the new international format — the Carpathian Eight. It aims to unite the European Union with the regional states: Romania, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary. In this new format, these countries will collaborate in security, energy, logistics, cross-border economic cooperation, and substantial support for citizens. Former ambassador Valeriy Chaly later noted that the main task of the C8 is for the format not to remain only at the level of statements, and for Ukraine to demonstrate that it "is becoming an initiator, and better — a leader, rather than begging for money from the EU."
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