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thread 1/9
"With a current workforce of more than 220,000, #Ukrzaliznytsia remains [ #Ukraine 's] largest employer, as it was before the invasion began

Over 400 railroad workers have been killed, and others are already returning to civilian life with life-changing injuries"

https://bit.ly/3YZl7FW
01:50 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 2/9
"Over 8,000 railroad workers are currently serving in the military, with others having been unable to work because of displacement or injury. “Assistance to wounded workers is new since the beginning of the war

Wounded care is different from workplace injury”
01:51 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 3/9
“There are already approximately 30,000 amputations.

It’s on the scale of World War I.

We need accessibility nationwide.”

Ukrzaliznytsia has purchased 37 rail cars that are wheelchair-accessible, but with more than 2,000 platforms and station stops, “it will be a lengthy process”
01:52 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 4/9
“Over 1 million kids were evacuated, and many of them are returning with their families. The country will not survive without people coming back, and they won’t unless we provide a modern, attractive environment.”
01:52 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 5/9
"Pertsovskyi admitted that before the war, “railway tea was really bad”

Ukrzaliznytsia asked tea companies from around the country to audition their wares, and a new, tastier brand from the Carpathian Mountains was chosen

Some of the proceeds go to purchase drones for the military"
01:54 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 6/9
"Not just Biden, but the leaders of just about every EU and NATO country, as well as other VIPs including pop and movie stars Bono, Angelina Jolie, and Sean Penn, have ridden the rails to Kyiv. Ukrzaliznytsia calls catering to this new class of passengers “iron diplomacy.”
01:54 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 7/9
"Almost 20 percent of the system is out of service, either occupied by the Russian invaders or temporarily damaged. Fifteen major bridges have been destroyed, and they will cost $30 million to $40 million each to eventually replace."
01:55 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Charlie 21
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thread 8/9
“I need 300 more workers,” said Oleh Holovaschenko, the director of the plant. “Last year, we did more trains than in any other year before.”
01:56 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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thread 9/9
"Between repairing war-damaged rolling stock, renovating the cars for hospital train use, and rehabilitating others to become wheelchair-accessible, the plant is operating at 140 percent of its normal capacity"
01:56 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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