About 600 trucks queueing to cross Ukrainian-Slovak border, up to 1,000 Ukrainian-Hungarian border - Ukrainian border service

MOSCOW. Dec 1 (Interfax) - About 600 trucks were queueing to cross the Uzhgorod-Vysne Nemecke checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Slovak border and up to 1,000 trucks the Chop (Tisza)-Zahony checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border as of the morning of December 1, Ukrainian State Border Service spokesman Andrei Demchenko said.

"As of this morning, about 600 trucks are queuing to cross the Uzhgorod-Vysne Nemecke checkpoint on the border with Slovakia, and up to 1,000 trucks in front of the Tisza checkpoint on the border with Hungary. And we have information from our Slovak partners that truck traffic will start being blocked precisely via the Uzhgorod-Vysne Nemecke crossing today," Ukrainian media quoted Demchenko as saying during a TV marathon on Friday.

The crossing will be blocked by members of the Slovak haulers' union UNAS, he said.

"Protesters said they would let about four trucks through from Slovakia each hour," Demchenko said.