“Passenger flow at the border of Ukraine: the DPSU spoke about seasonal fluctuations Passenger flow at the border of Ukraine remains at the level of last year with seasonal fluctuations. In August, about 4 million people crossed the border, and in September there was a slight decrease.”, — write on: unn.ua
“Passenger flow, if compared with last year, remained at the same level and the number of people willing to cross the border increases significantly in the summer period, or in the winter period during the holidays. As for the summer months, we have every month in June, July, In August, there was a gradual increase in passenger traffic, for example, in August, a total of about 4 million people crossed the border in both directions since the beginning of September, the passenger traffic has decreased somewhat, although it is still lower than in the summer months. it remains at the level of about 95,000,” said Demchenko.
He noted that there is no preference for departure or entry in September.
“In terms of percentage, passenger traffic fluctuates around 50 to 50. With the decrease in passenger traffic, we also do not notice significant queues at the border. (…) But of course, certain accumulations of vehicles can be present, especially on Thursday, Friday, the beginning on Saturdays, but there are dozens of cars, not hundreds, as it was in the summer,” Demchenko added.
We will remind
The spokesperson of the DPSU reported on the trend towards a decrease in illegal border crossings in August compared to July. Most violators were detained on the border with Romania and Moldova.