Did a Czech company repair a railway in Belarus used by the Russians? ‘We withdrew,’ defends AŽD Praha | iRADIO
The company AŽD Praha left the Belarusian Railways. The company terminated the leases for its jobs there and sold the inventory. At the same time, none of its employees should be in Belarus. The company announced this on Twitter on Tuesday. In recent days, AŽD Praha faced criticism for its work on the Belarusian railway. According to the monitoring group Belaruski Hajun, Russia used it to transfer military equipment to Ukraine.
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“No AŽD employee is present in Belarus. We sold all the stocks, terminated the leases and due to the conflict in Ukraine, we left the Belarusian market by our own decision,” the company said in a statement on twitter.
Company on Tuesday at twitter she also stated that she started the process of leaving immediately after the war in Ukraine broke out. It is not clear exactly when she definitively ended her work in Belarus.
AŽD Praha has faced criticism in recent days for its work on the Belarusian railway. The initiative of the Association of Belarusian Railwaymen wrote on the Telegram social network that a security system from the Czech company AŽD was put into operation at two stations in Homel, Belarus.
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The Belarusian monitoring group Belaruski Hajun, referring to the fact that Russia used Belarusian territory for a military attack on Ukraine, said that Russian military equipment was moving along the railway junction in Homel.
The company wrote about this in previous weeks that it was only the most necessary work to ensure operational safety.
AŽD Praha is one of the largest companies in the field of security technology on the Czech market. For example, he participates in the installation of the ETCS security device on the domestic railway. From October 2020 to the end of September 2021, the company increased its net profit by almost two percent to 958.5 million crowns.
The company’s turnover then rose by about a billion to 9.5 billion crowns. The company has 24 subsidiaries, 11 of which are abroad. Four enterprises are in Slovakia and one each in Bulgaria, Serbia, Belarus, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and Poland.
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