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Since December 21st 2007, Ukraine is a direct Schengen neighbor, via the Hungarian and Polish borders.

Some reporters from Deutsche Welle reported that improved control at the border caused huge lines of trucks formed many kilometers of queue where the waiting time exceeded sometime over thirty hours. This is partly due to the cancellation of controls inside the European Union country: trucks reached Ukrainian much faster and that caused a queue.

At least, the state of Hungary provided hot tea and portable toilets for the frozen drivers.