Overview
- From 01:00 Minsk time on November 20, the Kamenny Log–Medininkai and Benyakoni–Šalčininkai road checkpoints returned to operation and the first vehicles crossed.
- Belarus’s State Border Committee said it received formal notice from Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service on November 19 about the plan to restart the crossings.
- Belarusian border and customs authorities stated they are prepared to process people and freight on the Belarus–Lithuania frontier.
- Lithuania’s government announced the closures on October 29 for one month with a possible extension, citing a series of meteorological sondes entering its airspace.
- Belarus previously moved more than 1,000 Lithuanian trucks to designated parking areas, and officials said the vehicles will stay there until cross-border truck movement is fully restored.