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Czech company RegioJet will launch a passenger train to Ukraine

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The private Czech company RegioJet, which provides rail and bus passenger services in June 2020, launches a direct overnight train to Ukraine. It will run on the route Prague - Mostiska 2. The plans of the carrier to implement the combined route - from Prague to Mostysk by night train, and from Mostysk to Lviv passengers will be able to reach by bus. The train will depart once a day in each direction. The train will be from 8 to 12 cars. It will depart from Prague at 22:10, arrive at the Ukrainian border railway station - at 9:30. The train is expected to make stops along the route in Pardubice, Zabrze, Olomouc, Ostrava (Czech Republic), as well as in Krakow and Rzeszow (Poland). The end point of the route is caused by the fact that the track of the European standard of 1435 mm enters the Mostiska station in the Lviv region.

Ukrainian pilots in Congo during the night flight

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Pilots of the Ukrainian national contingent of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue to improve their piloting, navigation and combat skills at night on Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters.

Ukraine has closed the airspace over the Black Sea for rocket firing

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Regular rocket firing will take place on August 30-31, 2019 at the state test site of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Alibey" in Odessa region.     The relevant area closure warning for aviation missiles related to missile firing is posted on NOTAM (NOtice to AirMen) Recall that in April, May and July of this year, firing was already carried out at the range as part of the test of the modernized missile complex "Vylcha-M", and also in April and May fired a complex of cruise missile RK-360MTS "Neptune".

List: all Ukrainian Red Dot winners this year

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Red Dot held another award of projects in the field of Brand & Communication Design. This year, the jury immediately evaluated seven Ukrainian agencies and two companies.     The young iden.team agency received a branding award for the Yeppi gift certificate service, which plans to launch on the Ukrainian market this year. Category - Brand Design and Identity. Creators created naming, logo and service identity. The main feature of the work is the character Yeppi, "who, according to legend, lives so long that he caught all the impressions and now, shares them." Banda: This year, Banda received six Red Dot at once, three of them - Best of the best. Here is a list of awarded projects:      Branding of the GoodWine loyalty program (Brand Design and Identity, Best of the best);      Promotion of the Brave Festival! Factory (Brand Design and Identity and Film and Animation, Best of the best);      Rebranding of the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Coprorate Desig

Men's national team of Ukraine in fencing gained the silver of the World Championship

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Men's national team of Ukraine in fencing in the final of the team tournament at the World Cup lost to the national team of France - 37:45. The composition of our team for this match was as follows: Bogdan Nikishin, Igor Reizlin, Anatoly Gerei and Roman Svichkar. The French were considered the undisputed favorites of the finals, but our guys were able to give a real fight to an eminent rival. Our boys began to fight not very confidently, but on the move thanks to Spurk Svicharka got assured and to the final match came up with a score of 35:35. In the last match, Anatoly Gerei confronted the three-time world champion and Olympic champion Rio-2016 in the team squad Yannik Borel. Unfortunately, the Frenchman's experience played a major role. As a result, our team gave way - 37:45. Ukrainians  Bogdan Nikishin, Anatoliy Gerey, Igor Reizlin and Roman Snichkar at the start of the team tournament defeated teams of Kong (45:40), Hungary (45:36) and Italy (37:34). In the sem

"Yuzhmash" develops a spaceship

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The device is designed for delivery to low-Earth orbits of cargo and astronauts The state enterprise Design Bureau Yuzhnoye named after Yangel (Dnepr) is developing an orbital space plane to ensure multiple deliveries to low near-earth orbits and the return of various cargoes and cosmonauts from orbits, the Yuzhny press service reports. It is also noted that the design bureau develops a multi-purpose transport space module for solving the tasks of orbital customer servicing of satellites (orbital inspection, transfer to predetermined orbital positions, maintaining in given orbital positions, reduction to target orbits in case of transfer to off-design orbits). In Yuzhniy, it also notes that the bureau continues to develop remote sensing satellites for general, detailed and ultra-detailed optical observation: Sich-2-1, Sich-2M and Sat4EO, as well as Mikrosat scientific and technological satellites and CubeSat, GS-1 and Aerosol-UA. Recall that in April, the Antares launch vehicle wi

Antonov resumes cooperation with Cuba

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Antonov state enterprise resumes service of six regional passenger jets of the Cuban airline Cubana de Aviacion. This is reported by the press service of the state enterprise. According to the agreement with the leasing company South American Aircraft Leasing S.A. (SAAL), Panama, at the first stage, the company's specialists are already conducting an assessment of the technical condition of all An-158 airplanes of the Cuban air carrier. Upon completion of this work, the second stage will begin to restore the airworthiness of six aircraft. As a result, they will form a "technical first aid kit" - a warehouse of spare parts that will help in the uninterrupted operation of aircraft. The first two An-158 plan to restore in the first quarter of 2020. It is noted that the "Antonov" for the first time delivered the An-158 to Cuba in April 2013. The sixth car was handed over to the customer in 2015. The warranty period of the Ukrainian company ended in 2017. Earlier it