Ukrainian and Polish officials met in Warsaw on on Dec. 1 to work on a solution to end a protest by Polish truckers who want the EU to restate entry permits.

The queue of trucks starts more than 20 kilometres from Poland's eastern border. Hundreds of Ukrainian lorries are parked along the road in an unbroken line, caught up in a trade dispute that's putting new strain on Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Thousands of Ukrainian truck drivers are stalled at the border in Poland as tensions between the two countries grow.

Ukraine's top truckers union said on Friday its hopes of a rapid end to Polish trucker protests at the border were fading, as Kyiv prepared to evacuate its hauliers stranded in Poland.

The Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv border crossing between Ukraine and Poland will be opened on Dec. 4 for empty trucks, the State Border Guard reported on Dec. 3.

The Uhryniv-Dolhobyczów checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border will be opened for empty trucks leaving Ukraine, said Ukraine’s Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Oleksandr Kubrakov on Dec.

Ukraine and Poland will open an additional border crossing for empty trucks on Monday in order to open up a much-needed route for Kyiv, with some crossings blocked by weeks of protests by Polish drivers,