Updating rolling stock for passenger transportation will contribute to: - satisfaction of the existing demand for passenger transportation; - improving the quality and availability of passenger transportation services by rail (including the evacuation of the population from war zones to safe regions); - replacement of passenger cars lost during hostilities; - purchase of passenger cars adapted for the transportation of people in wheelchairs; - application of elements of inclusiveness in all carriages (letters in Braille); - implementation of barrier-free requirements in non-specialized carriages (for example, changing tables, etc.).

The current technical condition of passenger rolling stock does not meet modern requirements for passenger comfort and the quality of transportation services provided to the population, therefore, one of the urgent problems for JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" remains the physical and moral aging of rolling stock. Given the current situation, JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" is forced to annually exclude about 100 passenger cars from the inventory fleet, since according to the conclusion of the technical diagnostics conducted to determine the possibility of safe operation, they have exhausted their resource. Currently, only 11% of the fleet of passenger cars is younger than 5 years (or has undergone modernization during this period), 8% is older than the maximum allowable 44 years, and the average age of passenger cars is 31 years. Due to such critical wear and tear, the fleet decreased by a third (-1,109 wagons) between 2020 and 2025, primarily due to retirement beyond the maximum service life (according to the results of traffic safety diagnostics: some unusable wagons are over 28 years old and most wagons are over the maximum term of 44 years), as well as due to losses of wagons associated with military operations on the territory of Ukraine. Since the beginning of military aggression and large-scale evacuation of the population, the existing passenger rolling stock of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia has been operated in an extremely intensive mode. Passenger transportation has now increased by 23% simultaneously with the existing shortage of passenger wagons. At the same time, due to the irretrievable loss of part of the fleet of passenger wagons as a result of military operations and its aging, more than 100 wagons are forced to be written off annually, which are not subject to restoration or modernization for safety reasons. Production of passenger cars by a domestic manufacturer will provide support to such strategic sectors of the economy as railway transport and machine building. The utilization of the capacities of the domestic passenger car manufacturing industry will have a significant economic and social multiplier effect in related sectors of the economy, since a large number of Ukrainian related enterprises will participate in the manufacture of railway rolling stock for passenger transportation. The state will receive additional economic and social effects, because on average up to 40% of the funds spent will return to the budget and will provide more opportunities to support the economy and strengthen the defense capability of the state. Therefore, the annual purchase of passenger cars for budget funds is extremely important for meeting the existing demand for passenger transportation, improving the quality and accessibility of passenger transportation services by rail.