As of the morning of February 17, Polish protesters are blocking six checkpoints on the border with Ukraine. Yesterday they began blocking the Krakovets checkpoint.
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There are 3 thousand 300 trucks in queues. Representative of the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko spoke about this during a national telethon, the Ukrinform agency reports.
It is noted that the largest queue at checkpoints
- “Krakovets” – 1600 trucks;
- “Yagodin” – 550 trucks.
According to Demchenko, 45 trucks crossed the Shegini checkpoint on Friday, of which 25 were heading towards Ukraine – that is, in fact, one truck crosses the border per hour. At the Yagodin checkpoint, about 140 trucks crossed the border per day, 108 of which headed towards Ukraine.
On the territory of Poland near the border with Ukraine, since February 9, protests have been taking place on the roads leading through the Dorogusk-Yagodin and Grebnoye-Rava-Russkaya checkpoints.
On February 12, Polish farmers also restricted traffic on the roads leading through the Zosin-Ustilug and Dolgobychev-Ugrinov checkpoints, and again blocked Shegini. On February 16, they also blocked the Krakovets-Korcheva checkpoint.
Source: Ukrinform
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