Published December 03,2023
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Ukraine and Poland will open an extra border crossing for empty vehicles on Monday in an effort to open up a much-needed route for Kyiv, with some crossings blocked by weeks of protests by Polish drivers, Ukrainian authorities stated on Sunday.
Those protests, over what Polish truckers see as unfair competitors from their Ukrainian friends, began on Nov. 6, with 4 border crossings now below blockade. Polish hauliers’ predominant demand is to cease Ukrainian truckers having permit-free entry to the EU, one thing that Kyiv and Brussels say is unimaginable.
Ukrainian border service stated Uhryniv checkpoint, at present working just for passenger vehicles and buses, can be opened from 1.00 a.m. (midnight GMT) on Monday for empty heavy automobiles with a complete permissible weight of greater than 7.5 metric tons.
“The opening of Uhryniv is the first point on the list of measures implemented to unblock the border, reduce queues and increase the capacity of the Ukrainian-Polish border,” the border service stated.
Ukraine stated final week it had agreed some measures with Poland that would ease the strain on the blockaded border crossings, however that that they had not mentioned the primary calls for of the protests.
Source: www.anews.com.tr