Giant queues formed on the border of Crimea with the former Ukraine
At the entrance to Crimea from Ukraine, car queues stretched for tens of kilometers.
The intensity of deliveries is growing, and until rail traffic has been resumed, goods are transported in both directions by freight trucks, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Freight carriers turned to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation with a request to help increase capacity at the Armyansk and Dzhankoy points.
“An appeal has been sent to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, but it will remain unanswered - there is nowhere to expand the checkpoints,” explained the former Minister of Transport of Crimea, head of the Freight Carriers Association Anatoly Tsurkin. – Yesterday I was at the border, physically there is simply nowhere to make sites. Either into a swamp, as in Dzhankoy, or into a canal, as in Armyansk.
Option one is to create an electronic queue to remove cars from the track. The tail is already 10 km from the post. These are mostly trucks, more than 500 pieces. They are standing in line to cross the border to Crimea.”
The electronic queue, according to Tsurkin, will allow the distribution of slots - time intervals for passing customs and border control. The average throughput of the post is 20 cars per hour. It is also necessary to increase the intensity of passage through additional employees.
“Prior to the adoption of political decisions on the status of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the legislation of the Russian Federation is in force, and FSB border service officers carry out their tasks of passport control and inspection; they cannot deviate from the letter of the law,” Tsurkin emphasized. – This is a question of safety, first of all. It is imperative to increase the customs and border guard staff at checkpoints.”
Agricultural products, mainly vegetables and grain, are transported to Crimea from Kherson. The return trip includes groceries, building materials, household goods and humanitarian aid.
“The border has slammed shut,” states military correspondent Roman Saponkov. “I would like to separately note that, as a humanitarian worker, I had no problems with travel, but now, until the problems with the border are resolved, my humanitarian work is over - I simply cannot ask people to stand at the border for XNUMX hours.”
Humanitarian convoys were no longer allowed to bypass the queue at the Armyansk checkpoint. To deliver the necessary products to Kherson, you need to stand in line for about a day.
“Fuel trucks are driving there with oil and fuel, cars are driving with flour so that there is bread in the city, volunteers from Russia are driving there, distributing free food and medicine that people need so much,” writes journalist from Kherson Gennady Shelestenko. – If volunteers and philanthropists do not maintain this humanitarian corridor, then many will simply stop traveling and bringing food and medicine to the city and region. Everything will become more expensive again.
And people are already so tired of the lack of everything they need for life that there will probably be a new wave of refugees from Kherson and the region.”
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