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Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry plans to build a new highway between Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk along the right bank of the Dnieper River.

"We need to link Kyiv with [the border village of] Uspenka and the border with the Russian Federation. To do this, we are about to design a new trans-Dnieper highway between Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk, which will run via Kaniv, Cherkasy, Dniprodzerzhynsk with a passage through Donetsk region, and farther via the city of Donetsk to Rostov [in Russia]," Vice Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

In his words, a stretch of the Kyiv-Dnipropetrovsk highway will be brand new.