Darnytsia Railcar Repair Plant resumes operation after Russian strike

"On Thursday, the plant resumed operation. We start working in those shops where it is possible. We take the surviving equipment out of the destroyed shops. We resume repair of railcars because we need to ramp up exports," Oleksandr Kamyshin, CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) posted on Telegram.

Russian troops fired missiles on the Darnytsia Railcar Repair Plant, located on the left bank of Kyiv on Sunday, June 5.

Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that they had hit the plant because T-72 tanks allegedly had been stationed there.

Kamyshin noted that Ukrzaliznytsia invited journalists to the plant and showed that there was no military equipment there. Railcars are repaired at the plant, allowing Ukraine to increase ore and grain exports.

Kamyshin thanked the journalists who responded and showed the world that Ukrzaliznytsia is an open and transparent, peaceful company, while Russia lied again.

Investigative actions lasted for two days at the plant, law enforcement agencies recorded the results of the shelling.

As reported, on the morning of June 5, the enemy launched missiles on Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts of Kyiv. According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, one person was hospitalized.

As the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed, the enemy fired five Kh-22 cruise missiles on Kyiv that day. One missile was destroyed by the air defense units, and the rest hit infrastructure facilities.

It later became known that four Russian missiles had struck the Darnytsia Railcar Repair Plant.

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