During the first day of the work of the checkpoint “Diakivtsi-Rakivets” 145 citizens were checked in and out, including 85 citizens of Ukraine, 56 citizens of Romania, 2 citizens of Italy and 2 citizens of Moldova.
As Ruslan Zaparanyuk, head of the Chernivtsi Regional Military Administration, reports in Telegram with reference to the data of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, also for a day 50 vehicles, including 47 cars and 3 minibuses crossed the new checkpoint.
“The checkpoint operates around the clock for pedestrian and vehicular traffic (including buses). By the decision of the Romanian side, the passage of trucks is temporarily not carried out,” the statement said.
As reported, February 10, Zaparanyuk announced the launch of a new international road border crossing point (IBCP) on the border with Romania “Dyakivtsi Rakovec. The reconstruction of the checkpoint began in 2015 as part of the project “Development of border infrastructure between Ukraine and Romania in the framework of the program “Ukraine-Romania-Moldova (2007-2013)”. Then the work was suspended and resumed in 2021.
