KYIV. Nov 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine and Bulgaria plans to resume direct train travel between Kyiv and Sofia.
The Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine said that restoring trains between Kyiv and Sofia was discussed at a meeting of Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky and Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski in Sofia on November 13.
Pyvovarsky informed his counterpart that today passengers go to Sofia via Budapest, as the through-passenger car of the Moscow-Sofia train was cancelled.
He expressed hope that active work by the railway administrations of Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova will restore the through-passenger cars of Ukrzaliznytsia on the Kyiv-Sofia route for 2016-2017.
Both ministers agreed to work on the issue at the level of railway administrations and ensure railway communications between Kyiv and Sofia in the near future.
Bulgaria reaffirmed its readiness to liberalize air transportation between the two countries and pointed out the plans of the Ukrainian airline Windrose to launch Kyiv-Sofia-Kyiv regular flights in December 2015, to run three times a week.
