Despite the closed border with Russia,
passenger traffic with the aggressor state is actually open
.
Buses from Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro
and other regional centers of Ukraine
go to Moscow and back several times a week
.
Finding a bus to Russia is easy.
If there are no options in the search engine, then social networks are full of them.
As
TSN.ua
found out , such pleasure costs from 250 to 350 dollars depending on the carrier (9.2 - 13 thousand hryvnias).
It is cheaper to go to the capital of Russia from Lviv.
You will have to pay about $20 more for a trip from Kyiv or Dnipro.
Although
the cheapest option we found
is
from Kyiv
.
The scheme is simple: Ukraine — Poland — Russia
The carriers do not have
any complicated scheme
: a passenger boards a bus in Ukraine bound for Poland, and already in Warsaw transfers to a direct flight to Moscow.
He goes through Lithuania and Latvia.
Carriers bypass the ban through European countries / Photo: TSN.ua
"Only from Kyiv and Lviv, girl. 250 dollars. You don't need to buy anything. You come to Kyiv from Tuesday to Saturday at the railway station, near McDonald's, for up to two hours. And we'll pick you up in a minibus. There will be one transfer in Warsaw," he said
TSN.ua
carrier Mykhailo
offered to make sure that the bus is comfortable in his chat with "clients".
There are almost 2.5 thousand of them.
Most send parcels through their husbands, others travel to Russia and back.
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"There will be two buses. One from Dnipro to Warsaw, the other from Warsaw to Moscow. Departures from the bus station on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You only need a foreign biometric passport. It will take more than two days," a representative of another carrier named Serhiy
told
TSN.ua.
Dozens of people a week travel from Kyiv to Moscow alone
When asked
whether there will be any problems when crossing the border
, one man is surprised.
"Why should they be if the bus goes to Warsaw? There will be another one from Warsaw," he says.
The second carrier assures that
there are no problems with trips to Russia at all:
"Sonechko, there is nothing. Yesterday 20 people went (to Moscow — ed.), 24 went from there. Everything seems to be fine, thank God."
There is no need to pay anything to book a ticket.
Travel money is collected in Warsaw or after crossing the Russian border
.
Some ask for a photo of a foreign passport.
"Last name, first name and phone number are Ukrainian. You don't need a passport. And exactly what date you want. Tuesday or Saturday," added Mykhailo, who offers to go to Moscow from Kyiv.
The popularity of such flights is evidenced by their regularity and variety of options
.
Ukrainians are interested in flights and prices in comments to carriers' Facebook posts.
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It is impossible to punish "businessmen".
Despite the dubious directions, it is impossible to bring such "businessmen" to justice,
lawyer Rostyslav Kravets commented for
TSN.ua.
The point is the way the scheme is built —
there is no single carrier that provides transportation of passengers or cargo from Ukraine to Russia
.
"And it will also be extremely difficult to accuse them of collaborative activities, undermining the national economy, or non-implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, because these are different persons and are not legally related to each other in any way," Kravets explained.
The lawyer recalled that
a similar scheme worked after the ban on regular air traffic
with Russia in 2015.
"Everyone flew to Minsk, transferred to other planes and flew to Moscow. No one was brought to justice for this and it is impossible to bring them to justice. In fact, there is nothing illegal in this scheme. There is no single carrier," added Kravets.
Note that there is not one such carrier in Ukraine, and all of them have approximately two flights per week.
Therefore,
we can talk about hundreds of Ukrainians who cross the border of the aggressor country in just seven days
.
While soldiers and civilians die every day in Ukraine due to Russian aggression, "businessmen" earn money on trips to Russia, and Ukrainians themselves give them these funds.
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