Russian military engineers are building a new railway line to connect the country’s Voronezh and Rostov regions bypassing Ukrainian territory.The 18 km Zhuravka-Millerovo stretch will make it possible for Russian trains to circumvent Ukrainian territory in the south.
“Railway troops are building a 122.5 km double-track electrified line along the Southeastern and North Caucasus Railway,” Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov told RIA Novosti news agency.
Currently, several short stretches of rail lines linking Moscow to southern Russia cut through Ukrainian territory several times in Russia’s Voronezh and Rostov regions.
Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin announced the plans to build a new railway in the south bypassing Ukraine on January 2015.
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