Flight attendants and passengers at the train. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, June 19 Kherson region is technically ready to launch passenger rail service with Crimea, Volodymyr Saldo, head of the region's military-civilian administration, said. and from July 1 — passenger railway communication in test mode.
"The technical condition of the railway tracks has been checked and they are ready for the passage of trains", — he said on air"Soloviev LIVE".< /p>According to him, now work is underway to restore the railway connection with the peninsula, which was interrupted in 2014. special operations, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. Civil-military administrations were formed in the regions, the ruble was put into circulation, and Russian TV channels and radio stations began broadcasting. The regions have announced plans to join Russia.
Russian entrepreneurs enter the Kherson region, authorities said