The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on Rail Transport

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10.08.2025

Russian Railways crisis threatens freight and economy

Drone strikes continue to cause major freight delays across Russia, severely affecting logistics as Russian Railways faces its worst operational crisis in over a decade.

06.06.2025

Drone Strikes Disrupt Russian Rail Freight Nationwide

Ukraine needs over $20B for railway reconstruction following the full-scale invasion.

30.05.2025

Ukraine needs $20B for railway reconstruction after the war

28.02.2023

Network Rail Helps Rebuild Ukraine

Network Rail, working with partners in the railway industry under the slogan UK Rail for Ukraine, once again provided great assistance to colleagues from Ukraine.

27.02.2023

Military personnel and equipment from Belarus is transferred to the Russian Federation

A railway echelon with equipment and military personnel left Belarus. The train goes to Russia and should arrive in Matveev Kurgan on March 4th.

22.02.2023

Russian court sentenced two people on suspicion of railroad sabotage

A Russian court in the Belgorod region sentenced two people to three and a half years in a strict regime colony. The verdict was based on suspicion of sabotage on a railroad near the border with Ukraine.

22.02.2023

Income of UZ from the use of arrested wagons and containers of companies from the RF and Belarus reached UAH 1.7 billion

JSC Ukrzaliznytsia received UAH 1. 7 billion in income from the commercial use of arrested railway wagons and containers owned by Russian and Belarusian companies, the Economic Security Bureau (BEB) reported in a February 20 press release.

14.02.2023

Putin moved to an armored train

Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly using an armored train for long-distance travel to his residences. In the fall of 2021, when the Russian army began to actively prepare for an invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin started using an armored train.

01.02.2023

Ukraine imposes sanctions against the Belarusian railway

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree imposing sanctions on 182 Russian and Belarusian organizations and three individuals.

01.02.2023

Ukraine has already received 500 trains with weapons and ammunition from Western partners

NATO has limited ability to deliver troops and weapons to the border with Ukraine, the US military is working to solve this problem.

25.01.2023

Latvia and Lithuania promise joint efforts to ban the transit of Russian goods

The transport ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania met on January 23 for the first time in four years to discuss a ban on the transit of Russian and Belarusian goods.

11.01.2023

Train delivers 1,500 Russian soldiers to Belarus

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, a train with Russian servicemen arrived in Belarus. According to the independent channel "Belarusian Hajun", there were about 700-800 people in the train.

05.01.2023

Criminal case against the state enterprise “BTLC” BZD in Ukraine

The other day, news appeared in the information field about the start of a criminal case in Ukraine and an investigation by the police of the Poltava region on the misappropriation or embezzlement of property during martial law or a state of emergency against officials of the state enterprise "BTLC" of the Belarusian Railways, as well as some Russian logistics companies.

29.12.2022

Rail partizans from Belarus received 20 years in prison

In Belarus, three Belarusians accused of sabotaging the railway, along which trains with Russian military equipment went to participate in the war in Ukraine, received more than 20 years in prison each.

19.12.2022

Belarusian railway workers continue underground protest

Despite the intensification of the pressure and repressive measures of the the state and the management of the BelZhD, they fail to exterminate the spirit of protest from the railway workers.