Czech trams and buses are heading to Ukraine. Cars are sent by Prague and Brno, other cities will be added
Prague will send twenty trams to Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine and two buses to the western city of Khmelnytskyi. Brno will also lend a helping hand, donating two trams and six buses to Kharkiv. The machines were originally supposed to be in Ukraine, however, the councils of both cities ultimately decided to donate the means of transport as part of humanitarian aid.
Parts from destroyed machines
“On the day Ukraine was attacked by Russia, the Prague council decided that Prague and all city companies will help their sister or brother companies, which are in Ukraine,” said Šabík. Jan Šurovský, a member of the Board of Directors of the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague, is also involved in the matter.
“These are cars that are really familiar with both the series and our modifications, so it shouldn’t be a problem from my point of view,” he stated. “Of course, it’s possible that others will be missing some parts, so they’ll have to help by dismantling the trams that are already there and which, for example, suffered during the bombing of the Kharkiv depot.”
In operation since the 1970s
“Citizens of Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities know these trams very well. “Almost 70 percent of Ukrainian trams were manufactured in the Czech Republic,” the server reported Radio Free Europe. “The Tatra T3 model has been used in Kharkov since 1977. And this is not the only gift from the Czech Republic.”
At the end of September the Russians destroyed over a hundred buses parked in today’s Propetrov depot, they vandalized several vehicles in other cities as well. In the occupied municipalities, which ended up under Russian rule during the war, there are often no means of transport.
Belgorod, located 50 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border, was rocked by 16 explosions. Russia’s state news agency Ria Novosti also reported that gunmen killed 15 people during firearms training at a military training ground in the Belgorod region.
Ukrainian military intelligence has offered a reward of 100,000 dollars (2.5 million CZK) for the capture of the former chief commander of the Donetsk separatists Igor Girkin, who is also known as Strelkov. The DPA agency informed about it today. Strelkov used to be an officer of the Russian FSB secret service and had recently been in Russia. According to his wife’s statement on social networks, he recently went to the Ukrainian front.
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