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Ukrainian hauliers are planning to start a protest at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint on 15 February in response to the actions of Polish farmers who block truck traffic at the Polish-Ukrainian border.

Trucks weighing up to 7.5 tons are expected to be allowed to pass three cars per hour in each direction.

Ukraine's border authorities said that Polish truck drivers who had been blocking three crossings on the Polish-Ukrainian border lifted their blockade at two of them on Tuesday. Later the border service said protesters had halted their blockade at the Rava-Ruska crossing. It said that nearly 700 trucks were waiting to enter Ukraine at the two crossings.

Earlier in the day, Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov announced that the blockade at the crossing point had been lifted and that trucks were again moving along the border.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Monday that protesting Polish drivers had lifted a blockade at a Ukrainian-Polish border crossing and that the first lorries were passing through on their way into Ukraine. However, Tomasz Borkowski, leader of the Polish Committee to Protect Transporters and Transport Employers said that there was no agreement on ending a blockade at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing. Ukrainian authorities say about 3,500 lorries are blocked on the Polish ...

KYIV (Reuters) -The first 30 empty lorries passed through the newly opened Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border, which Kyiv hopes will unblock main land corridors amid protests by Polish drivers, Ukraine's border service said on Monday. Polish hauliers' main demand is to stop Ukrainian truckers having permit-free access to the European Union, something that Kyiv and Brussels say is impossible. "As of the morning of December 4, border guards cleared 30 heav...

Ukrainian lorry drivers waiting to cross the border at the Korczowa-Krakovets checkpoint amid a blockade by Polish hauliers have decided to suspend their hunger strike following negotiations. Source: European Pravda, citing Suspilne.

Former Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Andrii Deshchytsia explained in an interview with NV Radio why Polish truckers began their protest at a time when Poland is between governments, and how the dispute could be resolved.

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.

Ukraine's top truckers union said on Friday its hopes of a rapid end to Polish trucker protests at the border were fading, as Kyiv prepared to evacuate its hauliers stranded in Poland. Two Ukrainian drivers have died and thousands of trucks have been stuck for days in the winter cold as Polish truckers have blocked the roads to four crossings on the border, a key route for Ukrainian trade during Russia's full-scale invasion. "Frankly speaking, the more we talk to them the less h...