Giedrius Mishutis, representative of the State Border Protection Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania, said that the republic’s customs and border services were not able to quickly eliminate or reduce the queues of trucks at the entrance to Belarus. He talked about it in an interview. LRT.
“Officers are working hard, but the line of cars waiting at the border is not decreasing,” Mishutis said.
He noted that it is possible to double the number of employees, but that it will not work as the border infrastructure cannot physically cross more trucks.
On the morning of February 25, about 570 trucks accumulated in the village of Medininkai. In total, there were more than 1 thousand trucks on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.
February 24 reportedHe said that after the closure of the “Bobrovniki” border checkpoint on the Polish side of the border, the accumulation of freight trucks entering EU countries from Belarus increased 10 times. This was stated in the Belarusian State Border Committee (SBC).