{"id":112626,"date":"2024-11-05T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/112626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"border-committee-reports-spike-in-queues-to-enter-poland-by-car","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/112626\/","title":{"rendered":"Border committee reports spike in queues to enter Poland by car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Terespol border crossing\n <\/div>\n \n
\n (Polish Border Guard)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

November 5, Pozirk. <\/em><\/strong>In just 24 hours, the queue to enter Poland from Belarus become much longer, from 750 to 1,244 passenger cars and from 25 to 55 buses, at the Brest-Terespol border checkpoint, the State Border Committee reports, citing data at 10 a.m. this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus-registered passenger cars are banned from entering the Baltic states. Belarusians wishing to travel to the European Union by car can do so only via Terespol, the only crossing handling passenger traffic between Belarus and Poland after the closure of the checkpoint in Bobrowniki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw linked the latter’s reopening to the release of Polish minority activist Andrzej Poczobut, imprisoned for eight years in Belarus in a criminal case widely seen as politically motivated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only two checkpoints remain open at the Belarusian-Polish border: Brest for passenger traffic and Kaz\u0142ovi\u010dy for cargoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Lithuania also closed four border crossings at its shared border with Belarus, leaving only Medininkai and \u0160al\u010dininkai to handle the cross-border traffic. Vilnius cited national security, smuggling and international sanctions as the reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvia operates one checkpoint at its border to Belarus after closing the Silene border crossing indefinitely over concerns about an illegal migration crisis at the Belarus-EU border continuing since spring 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU. Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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