How to cross the border without kilometre-long queues: explanations from the State Border Guard Service
18 July 2024 10:33
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Since the beginning of the summer season, passenger traffic on the border with Ukraine has been increasing, and people planning to return to Ukraine or vice versa have to stand in queues. How to cross the border faster and avoid traffic jams in an exclusive interview
“The number of people in queues at the border is constantly fluctuating. At the beginning of the week, there are usually no queues. But at the end of the week: Thursday, Friday, partly Saturday, when more people choose to travel outside Ukraine, passenger traffic increases and the simultaneous arrival of a number of citizens from abroad, including by bus, leads to an increase in queues,” Demchenko said.
He reminded that the Western Regional Directorate’s Facebook page publishes the state of congestion at the checkpoints in the west every three hours so that people can get acquainted with the situation and choose the least congested checkpoints.
“It happens that out of all the checkpoints operating on the border with Poland, one may be busy, and the rest may not have a queue at all. But people continue to come exclusively to this busy one because it is logistically more convenient for them. Instead, they will spend more time waiting in line instead of choosing a freer direction,”
– the spokesman said.
The Facebook page of the Western Regional Department is https://www.facebook.com/zahidnuy.kordon
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