At the border of Belarus with the European Union, a sharp increase in traffic volume is being recorded. Since Friday, the total queue of freight trucks heading toward Lithuania and Poland has doubled. This was reported by the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus.

Polish direction

The most difficult situation is on the Polish direction – here more than 940 trucks are waiting to enter the neighboring territory.

The slowest processing of transport occurs at the Bobrovniki (Berestovitsa) checkpoint, where staff have accepted only 14% of the norm of trucks since Friday. Through the Kukuryki (Kozlovichi) border crossing into Poland, 47% of heavy goods vehicles have passed.

Lithuanian direction

As of 10:00, queues at the Lithuanian border are distributed as follows:

Around 400 freight trucks are waiting at the Mydiniņkai (Kamenniy Log) and Shalchininkai (Beniakoni) checkpoints.

Lithuanian controlling services fulfilled only 20% of the norm for processing freight traffic over the past weekend.

Situation with passenger cars

Queues are also recorded among passenger traffic. In front of the European checkpoints Shalchininkai (Beniakoni) and Terespol (Brest) there are currently about 160 passenger cars. The services of the neighboring countries have processed only 53% of the normative number of passenger vehicles.