In the fall of 2022, the invaders’ propaganda repeatedly stated that the Russian Railways would operate directly in the occupied Crimea, and not their fake “Crimean Railway”.
However, on November 19, the Russian “officialdom” announced that, on behalf of the aggressor’s Deputy prime minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, the issue of shortage of wagons would be “worked out” for the “carrier company” “Grand Service Express”, which now illegally operates the Crimean infrastructure, and this company allegedly “will receive 320 new cars”, “specially to increase the fleet of trains that run to the Crimea”.
As the aggressor-controlled “media” report on this matter, “but now it is extremely clear that Russian Railways remains” in Russia, and “their Crimean project, to put it mildly, has been postponed.”
However, this situation mainly indicates that the occupiers understand the absence of a criminal air connection between Russia and Crimea in 2023, and are trying to “catch up” on passenger flows with illegal rail traffic. It is unlikely that this will be feasible, and as our Association has already written, normal passenger flows will be possible only in the de-occupied Crimea.
