The bus terminal is located at Ploshcha Peremohy where there are local buses and shuttle buses connecting with Kyiv. The main ports are Odessa and Izmail on the River Danube. Services are available to the Russian Federation ports of Novorossiysk and Sochi, Batumi and Sukhumi in Georgia, as well as to a number of cities on the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. A ferry service connects Sevastopol and Istanbul, Turkey. The republic's most important internal waterway is the River Dnieper.
Black Sea cruises around the Crimean peninsula are available and well-recommended.
Most cruises leave from Turkey, Bulgaria or Romania and stop over in Yalta, but there are also cruises which leave from Yalta. The main stations are Kyiv and Lyiv. There are direct lines to Warsaw in Poland, Budapest in Hungary, Bucharest in Romania, Berlin in Germany and Brest in Belarus. Ukrainian trains are slow. Journeys can range from pleasant to terribly uncomfortable if, for instance, the heating is not working.