Ukraine and Poland will launch a high-speed rail link that will connect the capitals of the countries - Kyiv and Warsaw, the journey will take up to 4 hours. The corresponding draft is contained in the Ukraine Recovery Plan presented in Lugano on Monday.
The project is estimated at $1.2 billion.
Promotion of this project is likely to move at an accelerated pace, since Ukraine and Poland synchronized actions on its implementation even before the war..
In particular, in early February, the Ministry of Infrastructure reported this..
High-speed communication between Kyiv and Warsaw has been discussed since 2019, when the Ministry of Infrastructure announced the launch of the high-speed railway route Kyiv-Lviv-Warsaw-Berlin.
Recall that trains in Ukraine move along the " The same gauge is used by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as Belarus.
Most EU countries (with the exception of Spain and Portugal) instead use the "