Four border crossings between Ukraine and Poland remain blocked by striking Polish truckers, with some 3,700 Ukrainian trucks stranded on both sides, Ukrainian State Border Guard Service spokesman Andriy Demchenko told NV on Nov. 24.
The two people killed when their car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls and exploded in a fiery wreck were identified Friday as a western New York husband and wife whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores in the Buffalo area. The Niagara Falls Police Department named the couple as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani, both 53, of Grand Island, New York, a leafy Buffalo suburb close to the falls.
Estonian authorities continue their preparations to close the border between Estonia and Russia in the city of Narva, establishing additional barriers on the bridge, on 24 November. Source: European Pravda with reference to ERR Details: The first concrete pyramids appeared on the bridge in Narva on the evening of 16 November, after 19 citizens of Somalia and Syria arrived at the eastern border of Estonia and tried to enter the country without legal grounds.
Polish transport companies Thursday expanded their protests against what they call unfair competition from Ukrainian truckers by blocking another border checkpoint."We are here at the border in Medyka today, starting a three-day warning protest against the situation in agriculture and in transport," Roman Kondrow, the leader of the farmers protest in Medyka, told AFP.
Farmers have called for subsidies and preferential loans to support their businesses and said they would block the Medyka crossin