Lemtrans

The company owns over 15,000 gondola cars (open wagons), which transport over 52 million tons of cargo annually.

[3] In 2017 the head of Lemtrans, Volodymyr Mezentsev, explained that due to the War in Donbass, the company had control of 18,000 low-sided cars, with the other ones being blocked at the "ATO area".

[4] Despite the war conditions in the eastern areas of Ukraine, according to its reports Lemtrans had increased its cargo transportation in 2015 by over 13%.

[6] Early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting took place in Volnovakha, with Lemtrans's depot suffering major damage.

In March 2022, Lemtrans lost control of the depot to the Russians, who tried to restart operations there.