Media: railway blockade of Donbass can hit industry of Ukraine
Fix the order of calculations for rail freight movement in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions increases the probability of the cast to stop the largest plants in the country, writes the Ukrainian magazine.
The state railway administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) has decided to change the order of calculations for freight movement in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions - now to pay shipping it is only necessary at the destination station, the magazine writes. The reason for this change is called the fighting in these areas and, as a consequence, the inability to guarantee the safety of goods During transportation.
Former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of industrial policy of Alexander Kalenkov believes that such changes will lead to a blockade of the Donetsk railway. According to the decree of the President of Ukraine " On urgent actions to stabilize the socio-economic situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions ", discontinued maintenance of Bank accounts factories and residents of Donbass, respectively, and the shipment will be extremely problematic. Eventually, under threat of closure have the opportunity to be the largest enterprises of Donbass, because maintaining a continuous cycle of operation of the metallurgical and coke-chemical production in such conditions would be impossible.
When this stop plants in the Donbass will hit the factories operating in the controlled Kyiv authorities territories." Only 3-4 day transport blockade risk stop metallurgical works in Mariupol, mining and processing plants in Krivoy Rog, on Zuevskaya TPP, the chain will stop not only the industry of Donbass, but most of the largest companies throughout the country, - says Alexander Kalenkov.- according to the most optimistic estimates When the realization of such a scenario are able to lose approximately 100 thousand people."
according to expert reviews, in making such serious decisions must participate more than one Ministry, and all interested persons.