KYIV, Jan 4 – Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan says the railway service between Ukraine and the Russian Federation will halt.

"Indeed, we initiated a halt to the railway service with the Russian Federation. So far this issue has not been finalized at the Cabinet level. Nevertheless, thanks to the efforts of the Infrastructure Ministry, [railways administration] Ukrzaliznytsia in 2018 we for the first time achieved a much greater flow of passengers to the west than to the east," he said on TV Channel ZIK on Friday evening, answering a question about an initiative to stop the railway service with the Russian Federation.