Ukrainian and Polish officials said that Polish protesters resumed blocking one of the main border crossings, a flashback to massive protests in 2023 which severely disrupted transport routes.
Both Ukraine’s border service and a local Polish police spokeswoman, Ewa Czyż, said that the protest started at 2pm (GMT+1) on Monday at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing on the Polish side of the border.
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They said that one vehicle is allowed to cross the border each way per hour.
According to Czyz, 12 hauliers participated in the protest, and humanitarian and military aid were allowed to pass freely.
The protesters, part of the Committee for the Defense of Carriers and Transport Employers in Poland, are pressuring the Polish government over what they see as unfair competition from the Ukrainian transport industry.
“The initial actions of Polish carriers may last four months,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said, though the group didn’t mention the duration of their campaign on their Facebook page.
Local authorities had previously banned the protest, but a court in the south-eastern city of Lublin revoked the decision on Monday.
Massive tailbacks
The previous protests in November 2023 amounted to a blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border and targeted all agricultural goods exported from Ukraine. Huge queues, many kilometers long, gathered at the border involving thousands of marooned trucks.
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Polish farmers and truckers claimed a temporary wartime EU agreement allowed Ukrainian trucks to deliver and collect to and from the EU without the usual permits and undercut costs.
Three Ukrainian drivers died while waiting in the massive tailbacks of trucks. The protest finally ended in November 2024, a year after the protests started.
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