Georgian authorities: Kazbegi checkpoint switched to round-the-clock operation
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The Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia reported today, September 26, that due to the increase in traffic, the Kazbegi border-customs checkpoint has been switched to round-the-clock operation. The reason was the huge number of cars that had accumulated at the Upper Lars checkpoint, which is located on the Russian side of the border. Thousands of citizens of the Russian Federation (the vast majority are young men) are trying to cross the border in cars or on foot.
A number of Georgian TV companies used drones to film from the air a multi-kilometer queue of cars, minibuses and trucks that stretched along the entire Kazbegi-Vladikavkaz highway. It can be seen that the drivers organized themselves: trucks took a separate lane from cars. According to Kommersant, the Georgian police tried to interfere with journalistic aerial filming, fearing that the Russian side would consider the aerial filming of its territory a violation of the border. At the Kazbegi checkpoint, there were several clashes between law enforcement officers and journalists. The border guards and patrol police tried to drive the media workers out of the territory, but were generally unsuccessful.
Many of the people interviewed by Georgian journalists did not hide the fact that they were trying to hide in Georgia so as not to be drafted into the army to participate in a special military operation.
At the same time, a case was recorded when Georgian border guards noticed a small letter Z on the windshield of a car and ordered the owner to turn back. And one of those who wanted to get to Georgia was banned from crossing the border because of the “St. George’s ribbon” on a T-shirt.
Some Russians, desperate to cross the border by car and not wanting to stand in a multi-day queue, go to the Russian checkpoint “Upper Lars” on foot. There are so many of them that there was sent armored personnel carrier. “The armored personnel carrier is moving there, but it is not moving to set up a checkpoint, it is, roughly speaking, a reserve just in case the reservists want to break through the checkpoint and leave the country without completing any border formalities,” they said. RBC in the Border Directorate of the FSB for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
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