Belarus introduces entry restrictions for Polish trucks

February 17, BPN. The Belarusian government says restrictions will be imposed on Polish lorries and tractor trucks entering Belarus.

The Poland-registered vehicles would be able to enter Belarus and perform cargo operations only at the Polish-Belarusian section of the border, it said.

Belarus would set up an additional customs checkpoint, Bierastavica TLC, and a waiting area “in order to evenly distribute traffic.”

The government said the decision was directly linked to last week’s closure of the Bierastavica-Bobrowniki border crossing by Poland.

Warsaw shut down the major crossing until further notice citing security interests.

The move came after a Belarusian court sentenced a reporter of Polish origin, Andrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pačobut), to eight years’ imprisonment. The Polish Sejm called the sentence “the culmination of the Belarusian authorities’ repression against the Polish minority in Belarus that has been ongoing since early 2021.”