Stranded Trucks Start Moving as Poland Reopens Major Border Crossings With Belarus

Poland has reopened two major border crossings shut ahead of Russian-Belarusian Zapad military exercises.

The two crossings, Terespol and Kukuryki, resumed operations just after midnight today, two weeks after closing. Long lines of cars and lorries queued ahead of the reopening and freight rail traffic also restarted along the European Union-China corridor via Małaszewicze.  

The Polish Government shut all road crossings with Belarus on September 12 “until further notice” before the start of the Zapad military exercises. Poland saw those as a potential threat to the Suwałki Gap, the stretch of land that separates the Russian enclave Kaliningrad from Belarus.