Targeted Ukrainian railcar repair factory back online

Published on 10-06-2022 at 16:06

Image: https://twitter.com/AKamyshin

Operations were resumed at a railcar repair factory near Kyiv on Thursday. The facility was shelled by the Russian army last Sunday. It took local authorities and Ukrainian Railways a mere three days to bring the site back online, railway chief Alexander Kamyshin announced on Twitter on Friday.

According to Kamyshin, the Russian justified their missile attack last week by saying that enemy tanks had been on the property of the Darnytsia carriage repair plant. “We don’t have any military machinery on our factory. Only freight railcars that help us export grain and iron ore”, the railway chief wrote after the shelling, inviting journalist to come and inspect the factory for themselves.

Photo’s of the Kyiv-based factory shared by Kamyshin on June 5 reveal extensive damage to the property after four missiles struck the facility. Following three days of cleaning, the site was able to restart on Thursday. To what extent operations have resumed remains unclear. In a video shared by Kamyshin on Friday, Ukraining Railways says the actual repair work on rolling stock will restart “in the near future”.

It took us 3 days to clean out the factory after shelling and get back to work. Yesterday we restarted operations. We need repairing more railcars to expand export program. We showed to the whole world that we are open civil company, while Russians lied again. #KeeRunning. https://t.co/teChJk0pxl pic.twitter.com/YnjQwAQXY3

— Alexander Kamyshin (@AKamyshin) June 10, 2022