{"id":555013,"date":"2025-11-07T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555013\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:37:11","slug":"the-ukraine-war-halted-this-finland-russia-hs-fleet-now-its-back-rebranded-but-fully-finnish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukraine war halted this Finland-Russia HS fleet \u2014 now it\u2019s back, rebranded, but fully Finnish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Once symbols of EU\u2013Russia cooperation, the Pendolino Allegros linked Helsinki and St. Petersburg with high-speed service, a joint venture between Finland and Russia\u2019s state-backed operators. But with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, that partnership collapsed, leaving the state-of-the-art trains idle and falling into disrepair. Now fully owned by VR, the trains are back on the tracks \u2014 but now rebranded as Pendolino Plus and exclusively serving domestic routes as Finland definitively decouples from its eastern neighbour.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fin-depth%2F2025%2F11%2F07%2Fthe-ukraine-war-halted-this-finland-russia-hs-fleet-now-its-back-rebranded-but-fully-finnish%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1rem 0;\">Considering a corporate subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/subscribe\/corporate-subscription\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact us<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once symbols of EU\u2013Russia cooperation, the Pendolino Allegros linked Helsinki and St. Petersburg with high-speed service, a joint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[177421,177422,177423,769,177424,177425,49076,1538,177426,177427,177428,177429,177430,332,6185,753,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-555013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-domestic-routes","9":"tag-eu-rail-integration","10":"tag-eu-russia-cooperation","11":"tag-finland","12":"tag-finnish-rail","13":"tag-geopolitical-shift","14":"tag-helsinki","15":"tag-high-speed-trains","16":"tag-karelian-trains","17":"tag-pendolino-allegros","18":"tag-pendolino-plus","19":"tag-rail-network","20":"tag-rebranding","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-st-petersburg","23":"tag-ukraine-war","24":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115508218698448964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}