Ukrzaliznytsia carried 625,000 passengers between July 28 and August 3, which is 4.4% or 26,000 more than during the same period in 2024, according to the company’s head, Oleksandr Pertsovsky, in the first issue of the weekly operational statistics on passenger traffic.
“It is important for us to be as transparent as possible so that you can see how tickets for popular destinations are being sold, so we are starting a new tradition: we will share detailed passenger transport statistics on a weekly basis during this peak period,” Pertsovsky said on his Facebook page, responding to criticism of the company for ticket shortages.
According to him, it was possible to increase transportation while reducing the number of cars by nine (three were lost and six became completely unsuitable for operation due to their age limit) through more efficient use of the fleet: on average, one car carried 467 passengers, compared to 436 last year, which is 7.1% more.
Percovsky also emphasized that the number of passengers in children’s groups this year increased by 51% to 30,410 people during the reporting week.
In addition, UZ transported 10,000 military personnel through a special reserve, which is 2.1 times more than during the same period last year.
According to the company’s statistics, the largest number of requests in the app was recorded for train No. 95/96 Kyiv-Rakhiv: 143,100 requests and 5,700 monitoring requests with 1,950 seats available; train No. 81/82 Kyiv-Yasinya: 131,000 requests and 4,700 monitoring checks with 2,810 seats available; and train No. 57/58 Kyiv-Uzhhorod: 112,000 requests and 4,400 monitoring checks with 1,250 seats available.
On these trains, 27% to 33.5% of seats are available for free sale, while 6.5% to 11% are reserved for carpooling, and the rest are for group transportation.
UZ clarified that the highest percentage of children’s groups was on train No. 95/96 Kyiv — Rakhiv — 62% of seats in group bookings, followed by No. 81/82 Kyiv — Uzhhorod — 60% and No. 57/58 Kyiv — Yasinya — 59%.
The company notes that since last year, 95 cars have reached the point where they require expensive repairs, while as of August 3, 1,488 cars were in service on long-distance trains.
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 2024, as previously reported by the company’s CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi on Facebook.
