Reuters: Ukraine faces LPG shortages over Polish border blockade
Around a million Ukrainian cars use LPG, a third of which is delivered to Ukraine via the Polish border.
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Around a million Ukrainian cars use LPG, a third of which is delivered to Ukraine via the Polish border.
The number of blocked checkpoints on the Polish border may increase to five. Polish carriers are considering the possibility of blocking the Nyzhankovychi-Malhowice crossing point. Source: State Customs Service on Telegram, as European Pravda reports Quote: "According to unconfirmed information, there are plans to extend the blockade to the Nyzhankovychi-Malhowice checkpoint as well.
The trucker, a 56-year-old man, died after waiting almost three days on the Polish side of the border to cross, Volodymyr Mykhalevych, the head of the NGO International Automobile Carriers of Ukraine, told Ukrinform.
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.
A second Ukrainian driver died at a checkpoint between Poland and Ukraine on Thursday while waiting his turn to cross the border between the two nations amid a strike by Polish carriers that has been ongoing for over two weeks, the Association of International Road Carriers of Ukraine said.