The blockade is carried out in the direction of the Yagodin and Rava-Russkaya checkpoints. There are only about 800 trucks lined up in Poland at these two points.
Farmers in Poland, on April 22, blocked truck traffic at two checkpoints, allowing a few trucks per hour to pass, or restricting traffic altogether. This was announced by the spokesman of the State Border Guard Service Andriy Demchenko, writes Ukrinform.
He noted that the blockade is underway in the direction of the Yagodin and Rava-Russkaya checkpoints.
“Protesters in Poland do not allow trucks to pass through Yagodin to Poland Also, through this direction, protesters still pass a small number of trucks to Ukraine, especially in comparison on the throughput capacity of this direction the other day I would like to note again that this is the largest infrastructure route for trucks crossing the border, which can handle about 1,400 trucks in both directions,” said Demchenko.
According to him, in Rava-Russkaya, on the morning of April 21, Polish farmers partially began to allow cargo vehicles to enter Poland.
On the morning of April 22, there were only about 800 trucks lined up in Poland at these two blocked points. Cars and buses cross the border freely everywhere for this category of transport, movement on the other side of the border is not limited.
Queues also remain in previously unblocked directions at Krakovets and Shegini checkpoints. 1000 and 700 trucks respectively. Heavy traffic both leaving and entering Ukraine occurs in accordance with the capacity of each checkpoint.
We remind you that a failure occurred in the Polish customs service system on April 21. Truck traffic from Ukraine slowed down.
As you know, the Poles protested for at least six months against the import of agricultural products of Ukraine, the plans of the European Commission to extend the economic visa-free regime in Ukraine for another year, as well as against the EU’s “green deal”. .
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