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Learn more here about specifics of our cookie use We use Adobe marketing cookies to enable us to customise ebrd.com to tailor the website and email marketing services based on the interests of each end user The Poles continued blocking the Ukrainian Rava-Ruska checkpoint until the end of the day spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine “The blocking of the Rava-Ruska checkpoint by Polish farmers does not end at the specified time following a meeting with Polish colleagues they informed that the preliminary unblocking of traffic for trucks in the direction of the Polish checkpoint Hrebenne by the protesters in Poland should take place at midnight on June 7 (Kyiv time) the situation at this checkpoint is unchanged "A small number of trucks are crossing the border towards Ukraine there were about 50 trucks in the queue in Poland,” adds Demchenko Polish protesters may unblock the Rava-Ruska checkpoint on the border with Ukraine on June 6 Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Ukrzaliznytsia is launching a railway connection between Lviv and Warsaw The train will operate through the Rava-Ruska border crossing starting from October 15 2023.The route will involve a transfer since Ukrainian rail tracks have a different width (1520 mm) compared to European tracks (1435 mm) Passengers will conveniently transfer between trains at the Rava-Ruska station both on the way to Lviv and on the return journey The train in Rava-Ruska will always wait for the train from Lviv or Warsaw so passengers don't need to worry about missing the connection The train schedule is designed to cover not only Lviv but also other cities along the route This project is implemented in cooperation with the Polish railway carrier SKPL whose rolling stock will operate routes between Warsaw and Rava-Ruska and vice versa You can find the schedule and purchase tickets through the Ukrzaliznytsia mobile application Oct 6, 2023 | Business, Society A train service between the Polish capital of Warsaw and Ukrainian city of Lviv will begin running again next week for the first time in 18 years will run daily and can carry almost 500 passengers in each direction The journey from Lviv to Warsaw will take almost 10 hours and the return journey around nine hours Part of that time will be taken up by passengers having to switch trains in Rava-Ruska a Ukrainian town around 10km from the border because of differences in the width of tracks in the two countries Beginning October 15, @Ukrzaliznytsia and the Polish railway carrier (SKPL) will inaugurate a fresh Lviv-Warsaw rail route through the Rava-Ruska station Tickets can be purchased through mobile apps, chatbots, the Ukrainian Railway website, and international station offices. pic.twitter.com/kfsiud1jI1 — Ukrainian railways || Укрзалізниця (@Ukrzaliznytsia) October 4, 2023 The train service is being launched as a cooperation between Ukrzaliznytsia The latter firm will operate the trains running between Warsaw and Rava-Ruska is formally operated by Ukrzaliznytsia and it will not be possible to purchase tickets for travel on the line only within Polish borders reports industry news service Rynek Kolejowy “It took us more than six months to implement this project to agree all the details with the Polish side and to open the checkpoint,” said Yevhen Lashchenko chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia’s board of directors 10 more localities in Ukraine will be connected by rail to Warsaw and Lublin.” the train will begin its journey 200 kilometres south of Lviv in Kolomyia from where it will set off at 4.20 am Ukrainian time (GMT+3) arriving at 8.30 am in Lviv and at 9.58 am in Rava Ruska This will be followed by an hour-long break during the transfer to the train running from Rava-Ruska to Warsaw The change is necessary because Ukrainian trains run on a 1520mm gauge “Passengers should not worry about possible delays as the transfer has been agreed The train will always be waiting for all passengers,” said Ukrzaliznytsia on its Telegram channel The SKPL-operated train will depart from Rava-Ruska at 10.30 am and will stop in Lublin at 2.55 pm Polish time (GMT+2) It will end its route at the Warszawa East station at 5.29 pm The return train will depart from the same station at 9.45 pm and will arrive in Lviv at 7.45 am the next day A record number of journeys were made by train in Poland last year.@PKPIntercityPDP, the main long-distance operator, carried 58.9 million passengers, beating the previous high of 49.6 million in 2019 https://t.co/MfpOi5JtTz — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) January 4, 2023 Train tickets are already on sale both via the Ukrzaliznytsia website and app a Ukrainian phone number is required for registration Poland is home to around two million Ukrainians including both economic migrants and refugees who have arrived since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine about 40,000 people currently cross the Polish-Ukrainian border in both directions each day A handful of train services between Poland and Ukraine already exist including connections running between Kyiv and Przemyśl The Polish government estimates that 1.3-1.4 million Ukraine refugees remain in the country one year on from Russia’s full-scale invasion Poland has been the primary destination for those fleeing the war https://t.co/HQB8YAvcpQ — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) February 23, 2023 Main image credit: Ukrzaliznytsia / Facebook Alicja Ptak is senior editor at Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist , , The proportion of Poles saying the US has a positive 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in January Polish farmers resumed protests and the border blockade in February Recently, Ukraine, Poland, and the EU held negotiations regarding the grain issue. Following the meeting, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that Kyiv has five steps aimed at addressing the problem Today, on April 20, it became known that Polish farmers have unblocked two border checkpoints with Ukraine The attempt to illegally move tobacco products across the state border was stopped by the border guards of the Lviv detachment together with customs officers tonight A regular bus led by a 51-year-old Ukrainian was heading to Warsaw through the Rava-Ruska checkpoint the Border Guard decided to carry out an additional check together with operational staff and customs officers found 460 packs of cigarettes without excise stamps of Ukraine the bus driver packed the service hatches of the luggage compartment with it We use cookies to provide you with better navigation on our website you automatically agree to the use of these technologies employees of the State Border Guard Service issued in test mode the first train which will start the connection between Warsaw and Rava-Ruska with a transfer to Lviv The railway checkpoint in Rava-Ruska has not served passengers for more than 20 years Border guards have joined the border control in a test mode and are ready to register the first passengers soon After the completion of the formalities with the Polish side the start date of regular service will be announced Rava Ruska and Lviv will satisfy the huge demand of Ukrainians for convenient logistics by train to and from the Polish capital We are working to make our countries even closer to each other,” said Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine — Minister of Development of Communities Territories and Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov Ukraine is set to hold a meeting at the border with representatives from the Polish side to unlock border crossings The following sources were used in the preparation of the material: State Border Guard Service today the Ministry of Community Development and Infrastructure of Ukraine will meet with representatives of the Polish government and carriers at the border to unlock border crossing points The meeting will be attended by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission Deputy Minister Serhii Derkach will represent the Ministry of Restoration at the meeting as a result of negotiations between Serhii Derkach and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland the Ukrainian side has already resolved two issues raised by Polish counterparts These include the operation of lanes for empty transport directly at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing and the update of the functionality of the eQueue system – the ability to substitute drivers for empty trucks Polish counterparts were once again proposed to allow empty transport through the Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv border crossing Such an option would reduce waiting times for empty trucks at the border crossing A decision on this proposal is still expected to come later The agreement on transport visa-free regime was concluded in June 2022 and extended for another year in March 2023 This agreement exempted Ukrainian and European driver's license holders issued by either party from the requirement to have an international driver's license This allowed carriers to avoid many bureaucratic procedures and simplify logistics at the border the agreement exempted Ukrainian carriers from the need to obtain permits for bilateral and transit transportation to EU countries the cause of the strike was excessive competition following the liberalization of international transportation between Ukraine and EU countries Polish carriers began blocking the movement of trucks at the border with Ukraine at the crossings Krakovets-Korchova Media reports indicate that the strikers demand the introduction of commercial permits for Ukrainian carriers and a reduction in their number to the level that existed before the Russian invasion of Ukraine Although the demands have not been officially communicated to the Ukrainian side Strikers have blocked access to border crossings and pledged to allow one truck to pass per hour and not hinder humanitarian shipments more than 1,700 trucks have been stuck at the border for the third day due to the strike In addition, it was learned yesterday about a tragic event. A Ukrainian driver, who planned to cross the border, died in his truck at the Dorohusk-Yahodyn border crossing The final information on the cause of death has not yet been reported Polish protesters had largely stopped their blockade at the Hrebenne-Rava-Ruska crossing point, Ukraine's Border Guard Service said on April 29, APA reports citing The Kyiv Independent Trucks carrying grain to Poland would still not be allowed passage except for those transiting to other countries The farmers began blocking trucks at several border crossings in February in protest of Ukrainian agricultural imports and the EU's Green Deal Polish protesters ended their blockade at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing "On June 15 we recommend to avoid crossing the state border with Poland through the Rava-Ruska checkpoint The international automobile checkpoint Hrebenne in Poland (connected with Rava-Ruska checkpoint in Ukraine) may not operate because of probable striking Customs Service officers," the report noted Ukraine border guards ask travelers to consider this information before planning a trip across the border and While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421