Public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia will increase the number of international rail ticket offices due to growth of transportation of passengers to the EU countries, acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov has written on his Twitter.

He said that the expansion of the international rail ticket office chain would start from the regional branch of Donetsk Railways.

"The number of international railway ticket offices will be expanded in 2018. We start with Donetsk Railways. Instead of Donetsk and Luhansk, we will open these ticket offices in Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Pokrovska, Rubizhne and Lysychansk. Ukrzaliznytsia now offers the opportunity to travel to seven EU countries," he said.

According Kravtsov, in 2017, in the international route Ukraine-EU 5.5 times more passengers were transported than in 2016. In January-November 2017, 205,000 passengers traveled by train abroad.

"In the passenger trains schedule for 2017/2018 we have expanded the network of routes to the EU countries. Passengers can travel to Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, and to the Czech Republic with a transfer at Kosice station to train No. 240 Kosice-Prague. We work with colleagues from foreign railways to create the possibility of selling tickets online for international trains. Now we are working out normative and technical issues," Kravtsov said.

At the same time, the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia listed international trains running in the Ukraine-EU route.

They include train pair No. 67/68 Kyiv-Warsaw (daily, fast); No. 36/35 Odesa-Przemysl (daily, fast); No. 705/706 Kyiv-Przemysl (daily, Intercity+); No. 51/52 Lviv-Przemysl (daily, fast); No. 753/754 Kovel-Chelm (daily, regional, second pair to the train number 751/752 Zdolbuniv-Chelm); Kyiv-Kosice (two non-transfer cars in train pair No. 13/14 Kyiv-Uzhgorod, then by trains of Slovak railways to Prague and Bratislava); Kyiv-Budapest-Vienna (daily, non-transfer car as part of train pair No. 749/145 Kyiv-Lviv-Chop, further by the trains of the Hungarian railways); Kyiv-Bucharest (once a week, a non-transfer car in the train pair No. 117/118 Kyiv-Chernivtsi); Kyiv-Varna (it runs in the summer, a non-transfer car in the train of the Belarusian Railways).