The Karpatska Sich movement, which organized the blockade of Russian trucks in the Zakarpattia region, has demanded that the Ukrainian government revise its decision to resume Russian truck transit across Ukraine.

"On February 24, the Ukrainian government formally declared its readiness to resume Russian truck transit across Ukraine on February 25. Without holding negotiations with the Ukrainian people, or taking their opinion into account, the authorities have been using us, blockade participants, as a trump card in their bargaining with the enemy," the movement wrote on Facebook.

For the purpose of security for the Russian trucks, the government plans to provide them with police escorts throughout their travel across Ukraine. By doing so, it "sets the police and the people against each other," it said.

"A Ukrainian central staff of transport blockade was elected at a general meeting of regional blockade coordinators. We will give the government some time to think about this, and to revise the decision to resume the transit; for our part, we are ready for a dialogue," the report said.

The movement also called on Ukrainian truckers not to travel to Russia, because a possible resumption of the transport blockade may harm them. "You simply will not be permitted to leave because the so-called 'go home' regime ends on February 25. The demands that we made at the beginning of the transit blockade are invariable. We will act in a resolute, and swift manner, if the transit is restored. The authorities should listen to their own people, rather than the enemy killing these people in eastern Ukraine," Karpatska Sich said.

On February 24, Ukraine accepted the proposal of the Russian Finance Ministry to resume truck transit at midnight on February 25.

Anti-Russian activists blocked the traffic of Russian trucks in eleven regions of Ukraine in the first half of February. Russia reciprocated the move, on February 14, by suspending the traffic of Ukrainian trucks and, later on, their transit. Ukraine also put an official ban on the transit of Russian trucks.

On February 16, the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry agreed on the unhampered return of Ukrainian trucks stranded in Russia, or Asian countries bordering Russia, as a result of the suspended transit.

Russian trucks blocked in the Zakarpattia region on February 19, have started to leave the region.