Motor checkpoint to open at Ukrainian-Polish border by weekend

MOSCOW. Dec 17 (Interfax) - The Nizhankovichi-Malhowice motor checkpoint will open at the Ukrainian-Polish border on December 20, 2024, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said.

"It will open for passenger and cargo traffic. The admission of pedestrians will begin when relevant infrastructure is ready. A respective agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Poland was approved at a meeting today," Ukrainian media quoted Shmygal as saying on a social network.

The new checkpoint will cut the workload on the others and will broaden Ukraine's export capacities, he said.

The agreement envisages the opening of a motor checkpoint for round-the-clock international passenger and cargo traffic by vehicles with the permitted total weight of up to 3.5 tonnes, buses, and pedestrians, Ukrainian Government Representative to the Parliament Taras Melnichuk said.