At the Kozlovichi-Kukuryki checkpoint on the Polish-Belarusian border, activists have been blocking trucks carrying goods to Belarus and Russia for the second day.
This was reported by “Yevropeiska Pravda” [Ukrainian newspaper] with reference to the protesters and the Polish media.
Activists demand to expand European sanctions, in particular on the road transit of goods.
According to activists Natalka Panchenko and Zhenya Klimakin, as of March 13, the queue of trucks reached 28 kilometers. People stay on duty at night.
"This is sponsoring the killings of our compatriots," said Oleh, a Ukrainian living and working in Warsaw.
Drivers are outraged, saying they are "not interested in politics" and just doing their job. Not everyone agrees to say what their trucks are carrying.
“We convince them that we need to look broader, not just do their job. Silence also supports this war, ” – Oleh said.
Leaflets are handed out to truck drivers, “What you do only prolongs the bloodshed. The perpetrators of the aggression do not need these goods, the victims need them. Do not be complicit in crimes against humanity. "
The blockade is planned to continue all day today.
A representative of the tax administration in Lublin commented that most trucks transport goods not from Poland but from other EU countries, and that these are goods that have not come under EU sanctions.
Polish government spokesman Piotr Müller said on Saturday that there was no consensus in the EU on restricting the carriage of goods by land to Poland. The Foreign Ministry noted that control will be tightened at the border to prevent the circumvention of sanctions on certain groups of goods.