Long traffic jams formed on the border of Russia and Georgia

Queues of cars about five kilometers long formed on both the Russian and Georgian sides at the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint. Telegram users complained about the long wait.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, traffic along the Georgian Military Road and the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border were closed on the evening of July 31 after a landslide threat signal, people were evacuated from the checkpoint area.

Traffic along the Georgian Military Road is currently open. It was resolved on the morning of August 1, and the road was also closed briefly on August 2, according to reports on the website of the North Ossetian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

A multi-kilometer traffic jam formed on the Russian side in front of Verkhniy Lars, the Sapa Kavkaz Telegram channel reported today.

“It’s hot, there are no conditions, it’s impossible to stand with children. And no one regulates it,” the Telegram channel “Beware, News” quotes people stuck in a traffic jam as saying.

According to the Yandex. Maps service as of 17.56 Moscow time, the length of the traffic jam on the Russian side is about five kilometers, slightly less on the Georgian side.

“The line is long, even too long. We’ve been standing since the morning, but we’re moving slowly,” wrote user leika at 17.53 Moscow time.

“It’s started moving better now, we’ve been standing for 7-8 hours, there’s still enough to go to the checkpoint,” added Lizza at the same time.

“We drove for 8 hours in neutral from 11 to 19 towards Russia,” commented Svetlana V at 17.55 Moscow time

For a long passage through the neutral strip in the direction Elena also complained to Russia.

"We have been unable to drive from the Georgian border to the Russian border for seven hours now. We cannot drive through this neutral zone. We drove into the Georgian border easily, everything is fine there, there are no traffic jams, but there is always a problem with our Russian border - both there and back," Gazeta.ru quoted her as saying.

According to the North Ossetia Traffic Organization Center, as of 17:56 Moscow time, there were 3,395 trucks in line to pass through the checkpoint on the Russian side.

We also recall that as of July 16, 90 Ukrainian citizens were waiting to be allowed into Georgia after being deported from Russia. They are forced to live in an unfinished customs terminal in the Georgian part of Upper Lars near the Dariali checkpoint, in a building without utilities in unsanitary conditions. Only a volunteer organization provides them with food, water and medicine. On July 20, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that they were denied entry to Georgia due to their criminal past and invalid documents. Due to the threat of a landslide, they were evacuated and had to stand for several hours. But then the police returned them back to the neutral zone, Tabula reported, citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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