The Ministry of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure (Ministry of Reconstruction) is starting to collect data for the evacuation of drivers stuck on the Polish border due to the blockade, without vehicles, said Deputy Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine Serhiy Derkach.

“We have begun collecting data for the evacuation of our drivers ... we will evacuate everyone who expresses such a desire,” Derkach wrote on Facebook on Thursday, posting a link to the evacuation request form.

Drivers are asked to agree to be evacuated to Ukraine without a vehicle, as follows from its text.

“We have raised the issue several times at the working and official levels regarding food, the duty of ambulances, fire trucks, proper sanitary conditions - all this does not exist. But in the future we see messages about the approval of the continuation of the protest by local authorities,” the deputy minister emphasized.

He also said that over the past three weeks the issue of lifting the blockade had been raised “at all possible levels:”dozens of letters were written and meetings were held.

“We have proposed a number of compromises, the Polish government and the European Commission know them. But it is possible to agree on something when there is a desire to negotiate, and not just a desire to block the border,” Derkach wrote.

According to him, the Ministry of Reconstruction also sent an official letter with a proposal to create a monitoring group on the part of the European Union at the border. Its tasks should include recording the situation at blocked checkpoints: whether dangerous goods are allowed through, how humanitarian aid crosses the border, and what conditions Ukrainian drivers are in.

As reported, the blockade of three checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border on Thursday extended to the fourth, Shehyni-Medyka. The State Customs Service warned that the number of blocked checkpoints on the Polish border could increase to five: protesters could block the Nizhankovychi-Malchowice checkpoint.

Leader of the Polish carriers blocking the border, Rafal Meckler of the far-right National Movement, said on Thursday that among the conditions for lifting the blockade is a return to the system of issuing permits for Ukrainian cargo carriers in the European Union, which will not apply to humanitarian and military assistance, as well as the creation of separate corridors and “live” Queues for empty cars with EU license plates to leave at checkpoints.

“We get it on paper and at the same moment we leave the border. The ball is in Ukraine’s court,” Meckler wrote.