Is China backstabbing Russia?
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Ukraine has launched the first cargo train to China that will bypass Russia along a new "Silk Road" meant to counter the Kremlin's most stringent trade embargo on Kiev to date.
"This is a historic event," Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarskiy wrote on Facebook.
"Now, Ukraine is not just a potential transit country between the East and West, but one that has finally realised its potential."
An AFP team near the Black Sea port of Odessa saw the first shipment being loaded onto a train that was then moved to a ferry destined for the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
The ceremony was attended by top ministers and Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili -- the former Georgia president who waged a brief 2008 war with Russia and remains a hated figure in Moscow.
The 10-car and 20-container train will later cross the Caspian Sea and traverse Azerbaijan and the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan before reaching China nearly 12 days later.
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Ukraine launches new China trade route bypassing Russia - Times of India
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Ukraine has launched the first cargo train to China that will bypass Russia along a new "Silk Road" meant to counter the Kremlin's most stringent trade embargo on Kiev to date.
"This is a historic event," Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarskiy wrote on Facebook.
"Now, Ukraine is not just a potential transit country between the East and West, but one that has finally realised its potential."
An AFP team near the Black Sea port of Odessa saw the first shipment being loaded onto a train that was then moved to a ferry destined for the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
The ceremony was attended by top ministers and Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili -- the former Georgia president who waged a brief 2008 war with Russia and remains a hated figure in Moscow.
The 10-car and 20-container train will later cross the Caspian Sea and traverse Azerbaijan and the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan before reaching China nearly 12 days later.
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Ukraine launches new China trade route bypassing Russia - Times of India