{"id":152056,"date":"2025-08-21T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152056\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"eu-bound-border-queues-exceed-5000-cars-border-committee","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152056\/","title":{"rendered":"Queues at Belarus\u2013EU border exceed 5,000 cars \u2013 border committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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August 21, <\/strong>Pozirk.<\/strong> <\/em>More than 5,000 cars are waiting to enter the European Union from Belarus, with almost 4,700 passenger cars and 110 buses awaiting border processing at the Brest-Terespol checkpoint at the Polish border, the State Border Committee reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarusian border guards blamed their Polish counterparts for delays, noting that travelers wishing to enter the EU by car have to queue for up to six days. The Polish side reportedly cited the need for more thorough checks.<\/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\u2019s 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

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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