So far, the subway in Kharkov cannot be launched, since the subway today works as a shelter due to the constant shelling of the Russian occupiers.

Kharkiv metro

This was told by the mayor of Kharkov Igor Terekhov on the air of the national telethon, reports the railway magazine Railway Supply.

According to him, today the subway cannot be launched to transport passengers due to the fact that there are civilians who sleep and rest in the trains. Now metro stations are used exclusively as bomb shelters. The movement of rolling stock has been stopped since the start of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression on February 24.

They will be able to launch the subway in Kharkov not earlier than three months after the war.

Terekhov said that public transport would carry passengers in Kharkiv – apparently, we are talking about trolleybuses and buses, since the tram fleet in the city was practically destroyed by shelling.

“What will people ride? There are no trams. The metro doesn’t run. What’s next? Everything will be communal, there will be no private owners at all. The privateers turned and walked off. If we hadn’t made public transport back then (some smart people criticized it too), today we would have nothing to deliver food to people and so on,” Terekhov said.

Kharkiv metro

He noted that a similar situation occurred in the city with garbage collection. When the hostilities began, the private company, which provided about 20% of the removal of solid waste in the city, stopped working.

“The private trader turned and walked off. We picked up their 20%. Critical infrastructure must be communal and deliberate, otherwise there will be a catastrophe,” the mayor of Kharkiv believes.

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