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

30.04.2022

Ukraine has already accumulated $45 million worth of Russian military scrap metal

Recycling military scrap metal is a complex process, but it will bring, in addition to ferrous, non-ferrous and precious metals.

30.04.2022

Belarusian railway partisans helped thwart Russian offensive on Kyiv

In the early days of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, a lightning-fast capture of Kyiv was planned. However, railway saboteurs stepped up in the Belarusian direction, wreaking havoc on the logistics of Russian troops, writes The Washington Post.

29.04.2022

Occupants brought weapons to Ukraine through Kupyansk station

The divisions of the occupation forces of Russia replenished the stocks of material and technical means from the territory of the Russian Federation through the Kupyansk-Sortirovochny station.

29.04.2022

Invaders put pressure on farmers and steal Ukrainian grain

In the Svatovsky district of the Luhansk region, the authorities of the so-called "LPR" are forcing farmers to start sowing.

28.04.2022

The World Bank estimated the damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure from the war at $60 billion

The World Bank Group has completed a preliminary assessment of the physical damage to Ukraine's buildings and infrastructure caused by Russia's military aggression and estimated it at about $60 billion.

27.04.2022

UZ evacuated 500 thousand people abroad

Since the beginning of the war, Ukrzaliznytsia has evacuated half a million people abroad. Most of the passengers left for Poland.

27.04.2022

Bearing manufacturer SKF ends its operations in Russia

Swedish bearing manufacturer SKF ceases operations in Russia. This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply, citing a statement from the company.

27.04.2022

The occupiers reported on the prevention of the undermining of the railway in the Crimea

On April 21, the Russian FSB reported on “preventing a terrorist attack” on a railway in Russian-occupied Crimea. This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply with reference to interfax.

Transmashholding president leaves office

27.04.2022

President of Russian Transmashholding leaves office due to sanctions

President and member of the board of directors of the largest manufacturer of rolling stock for rail transport in Russia - Transmashholding JSC - Andrey Bokarev is leaving his posts.

27.04.2022

The occupiers damaged the railway tracks and the contact network in the Dnipro region

On April 21 in the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnipro region the Russian occupying troops launched three missile attacks on the railway.

27.04.2022

Thales sold technology and components of the fire control system to Russia

The French company Thales, bypassing the sanctions, sold technologies and components of a fire control system for guns for new Russian BMD-4 armored vehicles.

26.04.2022

Detained “rail partisans” recognized as political prisoners

Today, human rights activists recognized 11 more people as political prisoners. These are the "rail partisans" Sergei Glebko, Dmitry Ravich, Denis Dikun, Oleg Molchanov, Sergei Konovalov, Sergei Plyashkun, Yuri Selvich, Evgeny Minkevich, Dmitry Klimov, Vladimir Avramtsev, Alexei Shishkovets.