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INFRASTRUCTURE MINISTER OF UKRAINE TO ANNOUNCE START OF HYPERLOOP PROJECT

22 February , 2018  

Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan plans to announce the start of the Hyperloop project in Ukraine. The announcement entitled “Hyperloop in Ukraine” appeared on the website of the ministry on Wednesday without giving further details. The minister wrote on his Facebook page “Really. Inception.” Meanwhile, Ukraine is not along the countries candidates for this project. The closest country that could participate in the project is Poland.
The press service of the ministry denied giving any comments to Interfax-Ukraine. Interfax-Ukraine also sent a request to Hyperloop. Hyperloop is a project of vacuum train proposed in 2012-2013 by U.S. venture capitalist Elon Musk. At present, the project has not been implemented.