website still advertises they were having 61 international trains to countries of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States; former Soviet Union) and 5 international trains to member states of the European Union. Well, I guess that page sadly hasn't been updated in the past 4 years.According to my knowledge, there is
- 1 train pair to a CIS state (Kyiv - Chisinau)
- 26 train pairs on 14 lines to the European border* :
- Lublin - Rava-Ruska : 1 pair, ending right at the border
- Chelm - Kovel : 4 pairs + 1 through train :
- 1 pair Warsaw - Chelm - Kyiv
- 1 pair Chelm - Kyiv
- 1 pair Chelm - Kyiv - Dnipro
- 1 pair Chelm - Kyiv - (Charkiv through carriages)
- Przemysl - Lviv : 5 pairs :
- 2 pairs Przemysl Lviv - Kyiv
- 1 pair Przemysl - Kyiv - Charkiv
- 1 pair Przemysl - Lviv - Zaporizhzhia
- 1 pair Przemysl - Lviv - Odesa
- Zahony - Chop: 10 pairs, 7 ending right at the border, 2 ending short after the border
- 6 pairs Zahony - Chop
- 2 pairs Budapest/Debrecen - Zahony - Chop - Mukacheve
- 1 pair Vienna - Zahony - Chop
- 1 pair Vienna - Zahony - Chop - Kyiv
- Kosice - Chop: 5 pairs, 3 ending right at the border, 2 short after the border
- 2 pairs Kosice - Chop
- 2 pairs Kosice - Chop - Mukacheve
- 1 pair Praha - Kosice - Chop
- (Chop total : 15 pairs, 10 ending right at the border, 4 ending short after the border)
- Sighetu - Solotvyno with connecting trains by walking over the border: 1 pair of meaningful transfers
- 1 single transfer - Kyiv -Solotvyno / Sighetu - Viseu (2h30 transfer)
- 1 single transfer Bucuresti - Beclean - Sighetu / Solotvyno - Zaporizhzhia (1h20 transfer)
In total, that's :
- 2 mainline** night trains (Warsaw - Kyiv and Vienna - Kyiv)
- 4 long distance*** trains into Europe
- 8 long distance trains into Ukraine
- 1 long distance connection with a transfer by foot
- 11 regional trains
I'm really happy #CrossBorderRail between 🇺🇦 Ukraine and 🇪🇺 European Union improved a lot in the past years, but yet sad about the circumstances and about the major difficulties in break of gauge still present today causing 24 out of 26 train pairs to end right at the border station.
* Ukrainian trains ending in Chop not counted, trains ending in Solotvyno with meaningful transfer by foot counted though
** mainline = connecting major cities
*** long distance = longer travel route but ending in a small border town