"As of today, transit of auto transport moves
unhampered," Infrastructure Minister Andrey Pivovarsky said, adding its
movement was not blocked
KIEV, February 27. /TASS/. Russian trucks are moving
via the Ukrainian territory unhampered, Infrastructure Minister Andrey
Pivovarsky told the 112 Ukraine television channel on Saturday.
"As of today, transit of auto transport is
unhampered," Pivovarsky said, adding the movement was not blocked.
The minister is confident that the nationalists
protesting in Ukraine’s automobile roads do not hamper the transit of trucks
and their campaign is peaceful.
"Transit has never been blocked," he said.
Apart from that, he refuted the reports of Ukraine’s
nationalist party Svoboda that 14 trucks had been stopped in the Chernovtsy
region.
"Blocking of 14 trucks is a fake which is not
confirmed," the minister said.
Some of the Russian trucks do not move along the
Ukrainian roads but stay on the curbs as the drivers wished so, he said.
"At the moment all the trucks which crossed into
Ukraine over the past 24 hours have passed via the Ukrainian territory, except
those in which the drivers are resting …," he said adding the transit of
Russian trucks was blocked neither in the Rovno, Zhitomir regions nor in
Transcarpathia.
Talks with Russia and other neighboring countries,
including Poland, on transport transit via Ukraine are underway, he said.
"We want to reach permanent agreements,"
Pivovarsky said.
On February 11, Ukrainian radicals in the
Transcarpathian Region announced an unlimited campaign to block the transit of
Russian trucks. Later they were joined by radically-minded activists in nine
regions: Volyn, Rovno, Lvov, Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zhitomir,
Vinnitsa, Sumy and Chernovtsy.
In response, on February 14, Russia halted the transit
of Ukrainian transport companies’ trucks through territory. On February 15, the
Ukrainian government officially announced suspension of transit traffic of
trucks registered in Ukraine.
On February 24, the Ukrainian government decided to
reopen the transit of Russian trucks and instructed the Interior Ministry and
the customs service to ensure their safety.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to resume motor freight
traffic between two countries from February 25.
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