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“Ukrzaliznytsia” Launches New Kyiv–Przemyśl and Dnipro–Przemyśl Trains

JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” announced the launch of new international trains to Poland, including Train No. 31/32 Kyiv–Przemyśl and Train No. 73/74 Dnipro–Przemyśl.

According to a post on the company’s Telegram channel, Train No. 31/32 Kyiv–Przemyśl connects with trains bound for Berlin, Prague, Kraków, Katowice, and Wrocław. It also makes stops in Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, and Lviv.
The train is scheduled to depart from Kyiv at 9:30 p.m. and arrive in Przemyśl at 8:19 a.m.

In early October, Ukrzaliznytsia announced on the social media platform Threads that, starting October 20, trains No. 31/32 Zaporizhzhia–Przemyśl and No. 79/80 “Sicheslav” Dnipro–Lviv were scheduled to be suspended.
At the time, the company noted that passengers on train No. 31/32 would have the option to transfer in Lviv or Kyiv.

As for train No. 73/74 Dnipro–Przemyśl, it will run via Oleksandriia, Kamianske, P’iatykhatky, Znam’ianka, and Lviv.
It will depart from Dnipro at 7:00 p.m. and arrive in Przemyśl at 2:10 p.m.

Ukrzaliznytsia added that at that time, passengers will be able to transfer from Train No. 73/74 (Dnipro–Przemyśl) to trains bound for Kraków, Warsaw, Prague, and Munich.
Among other things, the company noted that the flagship train No. 23/24 Kyiv–Chełm will be named after the renowned Ukrainian historian and head of the Ukrainian Central Rada, Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

It is noted that the train consists of modern, premium-comfort cars built in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion.
“We continue to work on convenient connections in various directions,” the company’s statement reads.

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KYIVSTAR MOBILE OPERATOR NOTES TWO-FOLD RISE IN DEMAND ON CONNECTION OF REMOTE SERVICES

The most popular service connection requests to the Kyivstar mobile communications operator from business during the month of quarantine were solutions allowing companies outside of offices to communicate with employees and clients, ensure staff with tools for joint work and establish the effective exchange of documents.
The company’s press service said on Friday that the number of connections to Microsoft Office 365 and StarTeams services over the specified period has grown more than 20-fold. In addition, the number of connections to the Star.Docs electronic document management service increased almost 2.5-fold. The vast majority of applications came from representatives of medium and small-sized businesses.
Another common request for Kyivstar was the organization of the remote work of sales departments and contact centers. So, according to the operator, the number of connections the Virtual Mobile PBX with the quick transfer of all calls from fixed telephone lines of offices to mobile numbers of employees working from home has more than quadrupled for large companies and more than doubled for medium and small-sized businesses.
The largest number of service connections for remote work was ordered by wholesale and retail companies, logistics, light and manufacturing industries, the agricultural and financial sectors, hotel and construction businesses, state-owned enterprises, healthcare institutions, natural resource providers, and companies providing services for business and the public.

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