Free Wi-Fi will appear at checkpoints on the western border, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said.
“The secure network can already be used by travelers who cross “Shehyni”. Before the end of April, Wi-Fi zones will appear in more checkpoints “Krakivets”, “Rava-Russkaya”, “Yagodin”, “Porubnoe”, “Krasnoilsk” and “Dyakivtsy”, – said in a message of the State Border Service of Ukraine in Telegram-channel on Wednesday.
Customs clearance and the admission of citizens and vehicles across the border will be temporarily suspended at the “Vilok” checkpoint on the border with Hungary on Wednesday night, the website of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
“According to the Transcarpathian customs, March 15, from 2 a.m., at the customs post “Vilok” on the border with Hungary, will be carried out routine work to replace the server equipment. In this regard, customs clearance and admission of citizens and vehicles across the border will be temporarily suspended. According to the information provided, the estimated duration of works is 4 hours,” the report says.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine warns of possible technical interruptions in the work of checkpoints on the border with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary on March 7 from 8:00 to 22:00.
“On March 7, 2023 from 8:00 to 22:00 there may be technical interruptions in the passage of passengers at the border. Information systems used in border control at external borders will be updated,” such announcement was posted on the official page of the State Border Service on Monday with a request to take this information into account when planning a trip.
Armenia and Turkey have agreed to accelerate the process of dialogue to finally open the border between the countries, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said.
“Concrete agreements have been reached. There is a decision to speed up the process of dialogue to finally open the border between Armenia and Turkey,” Mirzoyan said at a government meeting on Thursday, presenting the results of his February 15 visit to Turkey.
According to him, an agreement has also been reached to open the Armenian-Turkish border for citizens of third countries and holders of Armenian and Turkish diplomatic passports before the start of the tourist season.
The minister also said that Armenian rescuers sent to Turkey will return home through the land border on Thursday.
For his part, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the republic’s actions to help Turkey are exclusively humanitarian in nature.
“It is absolutely unacceptable to criticize us, because I cannot imagine a situation where millions of people in a neighboring country need help and someone can be indifferent. This is unacceptable,” Pashinyan said.
On the other hand, he said, Armenia emphasizes the need to change the quality of relations in the region.
“I regret that a certain change is taking place in the face of such a tragedy. But perhaps human tragedies make people more understandable to each other. This is an objective reality. I hope it can become a new starting point for establishing relations between Armenia and Turkey,” Pashinyan said.
He also said that the preliminary design of the reconstruction of Ani bridge on the border between Armenia and Turkey is ready.
Exit and entry movement for vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tons without cargo will be opened from February 13 at the planned “Nijankovychi-Malhovice” checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border, the Western Regional Department of the State Border Service reports on Facebook.
“From 8 a.m. on February 13 … will begin the implementation of the passage operations of cargo vehicles with a maximum weight of more than 7.5 tons, without cargo. The passage of trucks will be carried out around the clock in the direction of departure from Ukraine and on the entrance”, – said the officer of the press service of the Lviv border detachment Oleksandra Kuchkovskaya.
The new checkpoint is expected to unload the existing checkpoints on the border with Poland and speed up cargo and passenger logistics at the border. The point also provides for the movement of cars and the possibility of crossing for pedestrians.
As reported, the project of the mentioned crossing has been frozen since 2007. Work on its development intensified after a full-scale invasion by Russia, when the need to expand the capacity of existing border crossing points and the construction of new ones came to the fore. The construction of the Nijankovichi-Malhowice border crossing point was completed in cooperation with the Polish side under the Open Border project and became possible after the completion of the Nijankovich-Drohobych-Stryj road section, which leads to the border crossing point.
A total of 7 checkpoints for cars operate on the border with Poland: Dorohusk-Yagodin, Hrebenne-Rava-Russkaya, Korcheva-Krakivets, Kroszenko-Smilnytsia, Medyka-Sheginy. Points Zosin-Ustilug and Budomir-Hrushev are designed for crossing by vehicles weighing up to 3.5 tons.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine suggests obliging the State Border Guard Service to provide the Pension Fund (PFR) with information on people who crossed the state border, as well as entered or exited the temporarily occupied territory.
The corresponding bill #9004 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on February 8, but the text is not currently available on the website of the Parliament.
At the same time, the government representative in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk said that the purpose of the document is to provide the PFU access to the integrated interagency information and communication system to control persons, vehicles and cargo crossing the state border.
“The draft law proposes to provide the following: The State Border Service of Ukraine is obliged to provide the Pension Fund of Ukraine for implementation of its powers in the sphere of obligatory state social and pension insurance information about recipients who crossed the state border of Ukraine or entered/exited the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine through entry-exit control points”, – he wrote in his telegram-channel.
