KYIV, Sept 28 – Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has decided to leave the supervisory board of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia.

"Since June 2018, I have served as an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railway. I have been grateful for the honor and served to my best ability, but at present, I feel compelled to resign," he wrote in his column for KyivPost.

Commenting on the reasons of the decision, he said that the legal risks he was being exposed to excessive.