Following last week’s closure of two more Lithuanian border checkpoints with Belarus, the queues at the remaining two open checkpoints have increased, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has said.
As of 8:00 on Tuesday, passenger cars heading to Belarus had to wait about 10 hours at the Medininkai checkpoint and about 2 hours at the Šalčininkai checkpoint.
Around 410 trucks were queuing up at the Medininkai border checkpoint on Tuesday morning, compared to about 450 on Monday, and 340 were waiting at Šalčininkai, unchanged from the previous day.
Almost 155 trucks crossed into Belarus at Medininkai on Tuesday morning and 156 at Salcininkai, compared to 190 and 170, respectively, on Monday.
The queues were longer on the Belarusian side of the border, with some 820 trucks waiting at Medininkai and 730 at Šalčininkai on Tuesday morning, compared to 790 and 690, respectively, on the previous day.
Only two border checkpoints remain open on Lithuania’s border with Belarus following the closure of the Lavoriškės and Raigardas crossings last Friday and the Šumskas and Tverečius crossings last summer.
The situation at the former Kalvarija-Budzisko checkpoint, where protesting Polish farmers and officials are checking some of the transported goods, was calm on Tuesday morning, with no queues and the usual traffic recorded, according to the VSAT.
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