Balczun resigns as Ukrzaliznytsia head

Wojciech Balczun has resigned as head of Ukraine's state rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia "for personal reasons," Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.

"I would like to express my gratitude for the work done by Wojciech Balczun who has to leave the post of Ukrzaliznytsia head due to personal circumstances," he wrote on Twitter. 

He said that the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry had just been instructed to immediately launch the procedure of a public competition for the new head of Ukrzaliznytsia.

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