Polish hauliers to block Medyka-Shehyni checkpoint on Ukrainian border 24/7

Striking Polish hauliers have been blocking three border checkpoints on the Polish-Ukrainian border for freight traffic since 6 November. On 27 November, they will start blocking another checkpoint, the Medyka-Shehyni checkpoint, round the clock.

Source: Andrii Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, on the national 24/7 newscast, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Demchenko said that vehicles could cross the border at the Medyka-Shehyni checkpoint between 10:00 and 21:00 (Kyiv time) up until 26 November.

Demchenko also said that freight traffic was allowed to pass through the previously blocked checkpoints on the border with Slovakia, with 350 trucks crossing the border there over the course of the past day.

Background:

• It was earlier reported that as of 26 November, about 2,000 vehicles were waiting to enter Ukraine at three checkpoints blocked by Polish hauliers.
• Polish hauliers have been blocking trucks at three border checkpoints on the Polish-Ukrainian border since 6 November. On Thursday, 23 November, they started blocking an additional checkpoint, Medyka-Shehyni. They might continue blocking the checkpoints up until 3 January 2024.
• On 22 November, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) addressed the new Sejm and the Senate of Poland calling on parliamentarians to immediately find ways out of the situation on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Kyiv has an understanding of how to act and that the shifts will have to "take a little time".

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