Hyundai express train passenger awarded free tickets to Euro 2012 final

Published June 30, 2012 at 12:37 pm

Ukraine introduced a handful of high-speed trains purchased from South Korea's Hyundai days before the Euro 2012 games kicked off. The trains are a big step up on quality compared to the nation's larger stock of dilapted Soviet-designed trains. They offer speedier transportation between major Ukrainian cities compared to the older stock of trains but have experienced some technical difficulties.

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On June 29, several minutes before one of Ukraine’s new Hyundai express trains rolled off from Kyiv to Kharkiv, a Moscow resident who purchased the 100,000th ticket for the newly launched high-speed train service was awarded two free tickets to the Euro 2012 championship final to be held on July 1 in Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine reported on June 29 citing the press service of Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry said.

According to Interfax-Ukraine, the tickets were awarded to Maksim Zhiznin who arrived in Ukraine to visit relatives in Kharkiv. He bought his ticket at 2:33 p.m. on June 28 in Kyiv.

The buyer told officials that he is likely to attend the final, Interfax-Ukraine reported.