Ukraine lost approximately 8 billion hryvnia ($210.6 million) in December 2023 due to the blockade of its western borders. This was announced on the Telegram channel by People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
He added that international aid to the Ukrainian budget in the last month of last year amounted to approximately 5 billion dollars.
At the end of last year, Polish transporters, and then farmers, closed automobile checkpoints on the Ukrainian border. They demanded the cancellation of the advantages provided by the European Union to Ukrainian companies and, in particular, the restoration of the previous procedure for issuing compulsory licenses for commercial cargo transportation from Ukraine, as well as the cancellation of permits issued to Ukrainian transport companies. Republic after February 24, 2022.
On December 22, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reported that the parties agreed on steps to block traffic on the common border.
Later, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal discussed the passage of Ukrainian trucks across the border with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and suggested introducing joint control at checkpoints.
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