So, now when the story with @BorisJohnson’s stylish hat became public, have to tell the whole story.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead.
The story starts in #Irpin, where @BorisJohnson was during his recent visit to Ukraine. Look how grumpy he was. And I thought that the reason could be in his hat. That’s #londonunderground hat, btw.
So when Boris visited our station shop, @Pertsovskyi_O asked @BorisJohnson whether he’d like to try a different hat. A proper one. Ukrainian Railways hat.
We found a better hat for @BorisJohnson then. And @Pertsovskyi_O offered to change the hats right away. But Boris was not sure at the moment, as you see.
So we simply presented him a proper hat.
But later on the train Boris tried our hat and understood it’s a decent one. So he presented his old hat to Ukrainian Railways.
Launched the first train connecting 🇺🇦 Ukraine and 🇷🇴 Romania.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead! :)
Just to remind. Back in August 2022, in the middle of the war, we completed 20km of new track reconstruction. That track was closed for 17 years. We done it in 2 months. And then we waited for another 4 months while Romanian railways completed its part of the job.
We also brought brand new diesel train to the route. Made in Ukraine during the war, btw.
Another beautiful and touching story is accomplished. #IronVillage in #Irpin officially closed today.
Danger: 🧵
Hoow it started. #Irpin had 7000 people whose houses were damaged or destroyed. City mayor @markushyn asked @Ukrzaliznytsia to help his people with temporary housing. And we are always happy to support such stories, even if that's not about our core business.
In 2 weeks we established 5 railway carriages for temporary housing in #Irpin. We paid pretty much attention to minor details. We wanted to give our residents a decent living space. Otherwise we wouldn’t give this village our trademark #iron label :)
So. Another long story about our yesterday trip to #Mykolaiv and #Kherson. Danger: 🧵
We arrived in Mykolaiv early morning. Such a great feeling to bring the train back to town first time since the beginning of the war.
My brother @chefjoseandres was already waiting for us at the station. He made a long way from US to Mykolaiv only because he promised to be here once #Kherson is free. He brought his @WCKitchen team and few trucks of food with him. And few cigars. He’s got a style.
When #russians shell our energy infrastructure, we switch to diesel locos and #KeepRunning. We always have “plan b”. Was checking today “plan b” for diesel locos - steam locos.🧵