The actions of the Ukrainian radicals who are blocking the railway track in Konotop near the border with Russia, had no effect on the movement of trains. TASS said on Sunday, March 5, the press service of the Moscow railway (MZHD) in the Bryansk region.
“According to the duty officer at the Bryansk branch of the Moscow railway, breach of trains on the Ukrainian direction in the Bryansk region is not observed”, — said the representative of the press service Inna Chikacheva.
According to her, from the beginning of a new day from the territory of Russia in the direction Konotop loss only freight trains, passenger trains will arrive to the border of the two countries on Sunday evening.
As told Chikacheva, from Moscow through Bryansk and then to walk daily Konotop Ukrainian and Moldovan passenger train, Russian trains in this direction does not operate. The freight traffic in this area is relatively small, said MOR.
On the evening of 4 March, the radicals who call themselves “veterans of the war of independence” and “social patriots” began to build “redoubt” on the ways in Konotop. They promised to eventually take control of all eight border crossings between countries.
On 2 March, the Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former commander of the volunteer battalion “Donbass” semen Semenchenko said that the local nationalists will do anything to interrupt railway communication with Russia.