These questions I’ve asked myself some time ago. And these are good questions actually. So here are my step-by-step answers:
1. Why we urgently restore infra during the war? Because otherwise we would simply stop at day 1 of the war. And thus, neither evacuation, nor humanitarian aid delivery, nor #IronDiplomacy program, nothing would work. Just imagine that.
2. Recovery occurs during enemy missile attacks? Yes. Actually our life occurs during enemy missile attacks. Already 204 days.
3. What kind of father sends his children under fire? I never send my people where I’m not ready to go myself. And people know that. And see me walking on the track to #Balakliya shoulder to shoulder with them and with sappers.
During the war I’ve been 20+ times in #Kharkiv, 20+ times in #Dnipro, 10+ times in #Odessa, 10+ times in #Donbass - #Kramatorsk, #Slavyansk, #Lyman, #Pokrovsk, and many-many times in other smaller towns. And only once in #Uzhgorod :)
Me, my close #IronTeam, and the whole railway family of #IronPeople here are determined to #KeepRunning. None of us rejected to go ahead and do the job.
The best award for us is to see people happy with our service. Evening train brought 40 people to #Balakliya and 17 people back to #Kharkiv. For us every single passenger matters. Especially when we are talking about people who spent half a year under occupation.
We will withstand. I promise :)

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Station is damaged.
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Bad day, day 2.

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#iron_eurointegration in action!
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Now Romanian Railways has to do it's job and rehabilitate 16km on Romanian side. And then we will have another acting border connection for cargo and passenger transportation.
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