The situation at the Chongar, Kalanchak and Chaplinka checkpoints had remained stable and controllable by 1 p.m. on Sept. 20, Kherson regional police said on Sept. 20.
“Roads were not blocked, light and passenger transport is moving
unhindered. Police are talking to the citizens and motorists, who
gathered at the checkpoints, to explain the work of preventing public
order violations,” a Kherson regional police spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, according to a post on the Crimea. Realities account on
Twitter, there is already a kilometer-long queue of trucks at the
Kalanchak checkpoint.
Earlier reports, citing Ukrainian interior minister’s advisor Zorian
Shkyriak, said that “Crimean Tatars and public activists have begun an
indefinite civil protest” on the border between Ukraine’s Kherson region
and the Republic of Crimea to block trade routes to the peninsula.
