Aggression? No, we haven’t heard: Ukrainian trucks are heading to Russia
Ukrainian motorists from regions bordering the Russian Federation are taking advantage of the opportunity to refuel with cheaper Russian gasoline.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in a report from the Russian-Ukrainian border, Kommersant writes.
Journalists, in particular, visited one of the largest checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border - the Nekhoteevka automobile checkpoint, which is located on the four-lane Belgorod-Kharkov road.
It is noted that the flow is intense only in a short section from the border to several Russian gas stations: massive jeeps with Ukrainian license plates go there to fill up a full tank and immediately return back.
“In Ukraine, gasoline is twice as expensive,” they told the publication at the nearest parking lot on the Russian side.
It is noteworthy that many cars in this parking lot are parked in pairs - with Ukrainian and Russian license plates.
“It’s not difficult to cross the border with a Ukrainian passport, so the parking lot has turned into a meeting place for relatives. An Infiniti driver with Ukrainian license plates reloads groceries into a Priora with Voronezh ones and willingly shares his impressions: “We crossed the border without any problems, the Ukrainians hardly looked at the documents,” the newspaper writes.
The publication spoke with a woman named Natalya, who got out of a car with Ukrainian license plates. She said that she was taking her mother home to Russia. According to her, neither she nor her friends in Kharkov feel the aggravation of the political situation.
“Everything is calm here. People are doing business. Here you have seven trucks waiting for you to leave, but here in Russia there is a line of trucks about three kilometers long. Everyone works as before,” the woman emphasizes.
She also shared her impressions of watching Ukrainian TV.
“When you watch TV in the evening, you want to tear off the hands of those who are launching all these stories. This is such nonsense!” said Natalya, with whom her mother agreed.
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