On Saturday, April 9, 152 trucks from Russia and Belarus were not allowed to cross the Latvian border due to new EU sanctions.

It is reported by Err.

Since April 9, sanctions have come into force, according to which trucks with Russian and Belarusian license plates are prohibited from crossing the borders of the European Union.. There are some exceptions to the restrictions, but none of the trucks deployed at the border were among these exceptions, said Andrei Vaivars, a spokesman for the Latvian border service..

According to him, the drivers were not aware of the prohibition measures introduced by the European Union..

Now that truckers are aware of this, most drivers are no longer trying to cross the border, he added..

Restrictions do not apply to the transportation of certain food and humanitarian goods, as well as mail.

As part of the fifth wave of anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union, in addition to the ban on crossing the borders of the EU by trucks of the Russian Federation and Belarus, there is also a ban on entry into the ports of the European Union of ships flying the Russian flag.