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What happened in Ukraine before 25 February 2018?
Summary
A look back at two items from the days before 25 February 2018: a locomotive contract and a tremor in Kryvyi Rih.
What was Ukraine reading about in the days before 25 February 2018? Two reports stood out, one about industry and one about the ground beneath a city.
On 23 February 2018, Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railway company, and the American corporation General Electric signed a seven-year contract worth one billion dollars. It covered the supply of locomotives and diesel locomotives.
Three days earlier, on 20 February 2018, an earthquake of magnitude 3.2 was recorded in Kryvyi Rih.
The two reports concerned very different matters, and nothing links them. Together they give a small snapshot of the days leading up to 25 February 2018: a long-term commercial agreement for the railways and a minor tremor in a Ukrainian city.
