Ongoing blockade: State Border Guard Service updates info on traffic at 6 crossings with Poland
Pravda Ukraine
Polish farmers continue blocking traffic at the Ukraine border on 21 February. As of Wednesday morning, approximately 2,500 lorries were queued at the entry from the Republic of Poland into Ukraine.
Source: Andrii Demchenko, spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, on air of the national 24/7 newscast
Quote: “Polish farmers, as before, are blocking six directions and six border crossing points: Yahodyn, Ustyluh, Uhriniv, Rava-Ruska, Shehyni, and Krakovets.”
As of this morning, a total of around 2,500 lorries queued to cross the border from Poland to Ukraine along these six directions. The highest numbers were anticipated at the Krakovets, Yahodyn, and Rava-Ruska border crossings. The situation was somewhat different yesterday, as Polish farmers escalated their actions to block the movement of vehicles. They practically made it impossible for lorries to move in all directions, and on three of them (Rava-Ruska, Ustyluh, and Uhryniv), they restricted the movement for other types of transport, including passenger cars and buses, which were unable to cross the border for a certain period in both directions.
However, gradually, after 16:00 until 18:00, the movement of passenger cars and buses on these routes normalised.
Currently, the movement of passenger cars and buses is unrestricted in both directions, while lorries can pass on different routes at a rate of one or 2-3 vehicles per hour in both directions. The only difference is that they do not allow freight vehicles from Ukraine to Poland at the Shehyni and Yahodyn border crossings.
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