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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko has declared the authorities' readiness to restore railway communication with occupied Donbas.

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During the Savik Shuster's Freedom of Speech TV panel show while discussing the restoration of the bridge in the village of Stanytsia Luhanska, he assured the vehicles would drive across the bridge in a month or a month and a half. Other bridges and new crossing checkpoints will appear later.

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"Perhaps, a railway communication will appear so that people could comfortably move from one side of the contact line to another one," he said.

As of today, Russian-led forces in Donbas control a part of the railways with which communications were stopped in 2014 due to hostilities.