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Ukrainian railways are a wider grade matching the old Soviet sized tracks and trains.
They're starting to redo some of the lines to the narrower Europeans Union's standard. This will increase the speed at which supplies can be moved from the EU to Ukraine and deny the system to Russian trains.
This does mean that Ukraine will need new locomotives and train cars... but they probably need to be replaced anyways. Hey, more jobs for European workers. I am including Ukraine as European.
I've also heard that Norway will be donating 22 F-16 fighters to Ukraine. Only 12 are airworthy and the rest are parts machines. It's a start and long overdue.
They're starting to redo some of the lines to the narrower Europeans Union's standard. This will increase the speed at which supplies can be moved from the EU to Ukraine and deny the system to Russian trains.
This does mean that Ukraine will need new locomotives and train cars... but they probably need to be replaced anyways. Hey, more jobs for European workers. I am including Ukraine as European.
I've also heard that Norway will be donating 22 F-16 fighters to Ukraine. Only 12 are airworthy and the rest are parts machines. It's a start and long overdue.
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Well.. that's 10 more planes than they have F-16 pilots, so far. But as you say, it's a start, and Ghost of Kyiv proved it only takes one... (did you know there's fan-fic of him/her?)
IIRC the other Baltic states said something about changing rail gauges too, for much the same reasons. At this rate Russia is going to end up Balkanised!
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And it might not be a ghostly pilot. We both know that machines, if complex enough and loved enough, can leave "ghosts" behind. A sentient patriotic ghostly fighter jet! Wow, what a concept!