OREANDA-NEWS  The Supervisory Board of Public Joint Stock Company Ukrainian Railway must be open and independent. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman announced during A Question Time at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Friday.

"Today our objective is: first, to replace the Supervisory Board [of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia] with an open independent Supervisory Board. Currently there are officials, but there should be independent experts instead", said Volodymyr Groysman.

Commenting on the remark of an MP regarding the management of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, the Prime Minister noted that it is unfair to place all responsibility for the state of affairs in the company on the new Director alone who has taken office in May.

He noted that Ukrzaliznytsia had deliberately been destroyed and used as a source of funds to waste instead of being spent on modernization.

The current policy of Ukrzaliznytsia’s management is to bail it out, stressed Volodymyr Groysman.