Slovak truckers have ended a blockade of the sole road freight border crossing with Ukraine, a Slovak hauliers' association and Ukraine's state border service said on December 15. Slovak hauliers blocked truck traffic from Ukraine on December 11, demanding the European Union reintroduce restrictions on access to the bloc for Ukrainian trucking firms that were removed after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Due to the almost monthlong blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border, a significant number of trucks have used Slovak border crossings to cross into the EU.
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