Ukraine to build standard-gauge line Skniliv–Mostyska by end of 2027

Announced on 10 November 2025: on 6 November 2025 Ukrainian deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba and the European Commission's transport director Magda Kopczyńska gave the starting signal for construction of a standard-gauge line about 80 km long from Mostyska on the Polish border to Skniliv near Lviv. Ukraine has received a first grant of EUR 73.5 million from the European Commission; the project is financed half from EU funds and half from the Ukrainian budget, and construction is to be finished by the end of 2027. Skniliv–Mostyska is the first of four sub-projects of the overall Mostyska–Lviv European-gauge track project and extends Ukraine's direct link to the TEN-T network; the Chop–Uzhhorod standard-gauge line had opened about two months earlier. The date is a placeholder: the article gives only the end of 2027. (LOK Report, 10 Nov 2025)