Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ), the monopoly railway operator, transported 644,000 passengers between August 11 and 17, which is 4.8% or almost 30,000 more than in the same period in 2024.
“As in previous peak weeks, there are many destinations where demand exceeds supply by 5-7 times. We must continue to order new cars, find resources for even more repairs, and move forward with the program to increase the number of Intercity trains!” wrote UZ Chairman Alexander Pertsovsky on his Facebook page.
According to the company, compared to the previous week, transportation also increased by 1.1%.
According to statistics, the number of passengers carried by one car per week reached an average of 476, which is 8.2% more than in the same period in 2024.
In addition, the number of passengers in children’s groups increased 1.5 times to 29,800, and the number of military personnel transported through the special reserve increased 2.4 times to 12,500.
Separately, the statistics noted that the largest number of searches last week were for destinations in both directions on the Kyiv-Lviv route – 151,600 requests against 21,800 seats. The Kyiv-Odesa route had 92,300 requests against 19,100 available seats, Kyiv-Kharkiv – 69,200 searches and 18,500 seats, Kyiv-Peremyshl – 65,000 requests against 22,800 available seats, and Kyiv-Dnipro – 55,000 searches and 16,900 seats.
The current solution from Ukrzaliznytsia is to increase the efficiency of car utilization, namely, after arriving from their main route, cars go on their next trip, managing to make another “loop” between their main route.
As reported, in the first half of 2025, Ukrzaliznytsia increased passenger traffic by 1.2% compared to the first half of 2024, to 13.52 million. This is 23% more than in January-June 2023, Pertsovsky previously reported on Facebook.
