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Only a small part of the coal is sent to Russia by truck. The rest of the raw materials are exported by
rail through a section of the border that is controlled
by separatists.
Among the several thousand wagons used for transportation, some belong to
the Ukrzaliznytsia company - the separatists have seized them in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
The wagons are used illegally and from another point
of view. According to Russian legislation, trains manufactured before 1985 are to be repaired once
every 5 years. Given the time of the beginning of the occupation, this period has long expired,
and the Ukrainian owner had no opportunity to repair the wagons.
However, first of all, trains of Russian Railways and another Russian state-owned freight company,
FGK, enter the territory of ORDL (Donetsk and Luhansk Regions).
According to the documentation, the freight trains stand on the side tracks of
the Gukovo or Uspenskaya border stations in the village of Avilo-Uspenka.
This is reported by the portal "Informpost", which has turned
from a Debaltsevo local site into an interesting source of information about the occupied
territory. In July 2019, there were 2,400 wagons
in the entire territory, almost 700 crossed the border daily in both directions, passing only through the Uspenskaya station. The freight cars took out anthracite, metal, and coke and brought
in coal concentrate, gasoline, oil, propane-butane,
and iron ore. There were also more interesting cargoes, for example, Informpost reported about a salt wagon from Azerbaijan departing
from Khirdalan station, not far from Baku.