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The situation regarding the closure of border crossings on Poland's border with Ukraine will be discussed by the EU Council at the level of transport ministers. Source: This was reported by RMF FM, writes European Pravda Details: The agenda for the EU Transport Council meeting includes changes to the eCherha (eQueue) system, extra lanes at crossings for empty trucks returning to the EU, and the subject of protests on the Polish-Ukrainian border.

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi has appealed to the Poles to end the blockade of the Ukrainian border, which has been going on since early November in a Facebook post published in Polish.

About 2,000 vehicles are waiting to enter Ukraine at three checkpoints blocked by Polish hauliers. Source: Ukrainian Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development on 26 November, writes European Pravda Details: The ministry said on 25 November that with the help of the Association of International Road Carriers, 2,500 litres of water, 1,200 meals and all necessary medicine were distributed to the drivers stuck at the border at the Yahodyn-Dorogusk checkpoint.

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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the situation on the Polish-Ukrainian border, where striking Polish hauliers are blocking several crossing points, is related to "our neighbours' political decisions".

When Finland joined NATO earlier this year, Russia threatened retaliation. Now, hundreds of migrants from the Middle East and Africa have appeared at Finland's border from Russia, seeking entry into the Nordic country. Finnish officials say the sudden surge in asylum-seekers is no coincidence.

Polish truckers continue to put lives at risk as they escalated their weeks-long blockades of the Ukrainian border by adding Ukraine’s busiest border crossing to its blockade list the State Border Guard Service reported on Telegram on Nov. 23.

Polish carriers blockading border crossings with Ukraine are causing Ukrainian businesses to each lose UAH 1 million ($28,000) in revenue every day, Ukraine’s European Business Association (EBA) reported on Nov. 21, citing data from 55 companies.

Finland has closed several border checkpoints in response to an influx of asylum seekers being sent by Russia to create a migrant crisis.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has lodged protest to Finnish Ambassador Antti Helantera over Helsinki’s decision to close border checkpoints between the countries, the ministry said on Monday.