The initiative of the post-Maid authorities to completely close the route of passenger trains in the direction of the Russian Federation will play into the hands of the Belarusian Railways (BR). This was announced by the Chairman of the Union of Russian Passengers Kirill Yankov. So he commented on today's statement of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladimir Omelyan about Kiev's preparation to cancel the railway communication with the Russian Federation. "Now Railways will not lose much. Ukrainian railways will probably lose some revenue. Because trains are all Ukrainian. RZD will lose only one train Moscow - Chisinau, which is now transit through the territory of Ukraine, "recalled Yankov in an interview with" Says Moscow ". In his opinion, Belarus will benefit from the current situation, since then Russians and Ukrainians will have to travel to each other through the fiefdom of Alexander Lukashenko. "The passenger traffic is not very big, but stable, the connections between the states are quite large. Several trains go daily to the Ukrainian formation with such appointments as Kiev, Lviv, Odessa, Kharkov, Krivoy Rog. If the train is canceled, what will remain?.

First, people will transfer to buses while the land border is open, and secondly, our Belarusian comrades will benefit - the Belarusian railway will increase the volume of transit traffic between Russia and Ukraine, "the expert believes.. He believes that the main transit points will be Minsk and Gomel, and Belarusian railway workers "will be happy to sell such tickets with a transfer". At the same time, Yankov noted that in such a voluntaristic decision of the Kiev authorities you can only regret the citizens of Nezalezhnaya: "Ukrainian officials do not mind - they do not go, I think, long ago to Russia. But the inhabitants - they feel sorry for ".

Most experts come to the conclusion that the current surge of ideas from Kiev is directly linked to the forthcoming elections in Ukraine next year - both presidential elections (March 31) and parliamentary (October 27), so they are trying to play a patriotic card, especially the anti-Russian. "For some reason it is necessary to strike precisely on ordinary citizens in order to minimize relations at the level of civil society, as this harms the lies that are pouring from the TV screens and other media in Ukraine. Why this will not be accepted? This translates into election propaganda: whoever screams louder, he, you see, will take place on the lists ... All this will end in a pshik, "said in a conversation with RT the head of the State Duma committee on CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov. One of the champions of PR named pan Omelyan director of the Ukrainian Institute of Analysis and Policy Management Ruslan Bortnik. He also saw in today's statement of the Ukrainian pre-election rhetoric. "For him it is an element of the struggle for his political future in the local parliament or in the government in the next cycle. This is an attempt to play a patriotic card, "Bortnik stressed.. In turn, the president of the Federation of Migrants of Russia Vadim Kozhenov is convinced that the closure of the railway communication will not alienate the Ukrainian labor migrants, who are still traveling to Russia to earn money with cars and buses (because they are cheaper), fly by air through the same Belarus. The paradox is that according to the report of Ukrzaliznytsia, published in February 2018, the most profitable direction in the past 12 months was the route Kiev-Moscow: for the year it brought the company 154.5 million hryvnia ($ 5.8 million). In the top five were routes such as "Odessa-Moscow" and "Kiev-St. Petersburg", which earned 98.76 million hryvnia ($ 3.7 million) and 20.63 million hryvnia ($ 0.8 million) respectively. In total, ten Ukrainian trains run from Ukraine to Russia:.

№ 004 Kiev-Moscow, № 074 Lviv-Moscow, № 024 Odessa-Moscow, № 056 Khmelnitsky- Kiev-Moscow, № 054K Kiev - St.

Petersburg, № 0200 Kharkov - Moscow, № 0740 Kharkov - Moscow, № 106P Kharkov - Moscow, № 1430 Kharkov - St. Petersburg, № 0740 Krivoy Rog - Moscow According to Ukrstat information in 2017, 4 376 423 Ukrainians traveled to Russia. In 2016 3 859 820 inhabitants of Ukraine arrived in our country, 4 080 414 people went to the Russian Federation in 2015, 4 671 321 Ukrainians in 2014. As the publication "Country. ua, judging by the figures of the trend towards a decrease in such trips,. Probably, it is this fact that oppresses the postmaid authority.