In an interview with Polish carrier Cezary Grinkevich said: RIA NewsHe said that Polish drivers who closed the Ukrainian border were angry about the import of luxury yachts and cars into Ukraine.
Grinkevich noted that anyone can go to the border and see numerous car transporters full of cars lined up towards Ukraine.
“There would be no doubt whether these are military vehicles or cheap cars for ordinary Ukrainians. “But we constantly see car transporters full of luxury cars, each costing just one million zlotys (about $250,000),” he said.
According to Grinkevich, the goods sent across the border include models such as Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Maserati and Lamborghini. The Ukrainian side tried to justify the transportation of another luxury product (yachts) by the fact that these are actually military ships needed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). But according to Grinkevich, they were designed exactly like yachts.
December 3, Ukrainian border service representative Andrey Demchenko stated It was stated on Rada TV channel that approximately 2.5 thousand trucks were waiting for the opportunity to cross the Ukraine-Poland border.
In early November, Polish drivers announced a strike, hindering the movement of freight vehicles across the Polish-Ukrainian border. Only buses, trucks carrying humanitarian aid, perishable food and fuel tanks are allowed to pass through the checkpoint.
Protesters are sure that Ukrainian truckers offer lower prices for their services and transport goods not only between the EU and Ukraine, but throughout the European Union.
Later it became known that Slovak road transporters joined the protest of their Polish counterparts.
Previously reportedUkraine’s exports via Poland collapsed due to truckers’ protests.