However, this increase will be less than 22.5%, as was assumed earlier. On this Sunday, September 24, on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels, Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman.

According to him, now it is necessary to adjust the tariffs in such a way that they are acceptable for the real sector of the economy. And they also allowed today to get the resources to modernize the park of the Ukrainian railway.

At the same time, the head of government assured that today's tariffs do not correspond to economic validity. I negotiated with representatives of business, we are trying to find a reasonable overall solution, Groysman explained, adding that in his opinion this would be 22%, but not less than this.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the consolidated financial plan of the JSC "Ukrainian Railways" for 2017, which provides for the growth of tariffs for freight traffic from October 1, 2017 to 22.5%.