Queues of trucks to Lithuania are growing every hour. Now there are almost 1.5 thousand trucks in this direction. Only 2 checkpoints are open on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. And they can't cope with the flow of traffic. The neighboring side receives only 20 cars per day, although it's supposed to be so much per hour.
Correspondent Alena Leshkevich works at the border. She is located in "Kamenny Log". There are almost 700 heavy vehicles waiting for passage (live coverage).
The checkpoint "Kamenny Log". The queue here, what is called, and the end is not visible. Here about 700 drivers of heavy trucks are waiting for the crossing. For three hours in the morning the Lithuanian side let only 9 trucks through here.
In the two remaining checkpoints only 50 vehicles were processed during the day. While the possible 500. The queue of trucks starts already 10 km before the crossing.
Lithuanian border guards are also deliberately creating obstacles to their citizens who want to enter our country under the visa-free regime.
Yesterday, Lithuania closed the checkpoints "Lavoriškės" ("Kotlovka") and "Raigardas" ("Privalka"). Now there are 2 road checkpoints out of 6 available - "Miadininkai" ("Kamenny Log") and "Shalchininkai" ("Beniakoni") on the border with Belarus. This decision provoked an increase in the queues of freight traffic to Lithuania by 57% compared to a week ago. At these checkpoints, pedestrian access is also stopped.
