We used to travel across this border every year. The staff are wonderful, everything is prompt, they clearly say what manipulations need to be done and what documents to submit. Sincerely grateful! I hope that I will be able to visit there again soon 🙌
They wanted to enter the territory of Ukraine on 02/17/2022 through the Belarusian customs. The citizens of the Russian Federation themselves were driving cars with Russian license plates. They did not let us enter the checkpoint of the customs zone, some man in a uniform did not introduce himself and, looking at the car with Russian plates, he told us that we would not pass, from a neutral zone, people who work there came up to us with machine guns and told us not to stand there, although we were waiting for the receiving side from Ukraine, immigration The cards of this post have been torn up!!!! He didn't even deign to check the documents. This indicates that this customs is run by nationalists who hate Russians!!!! Since all the documents were required for travel to Ukraine.
The checkpoint itself is normal and we passed through it on December 31, 2019 quite normally. There were almost no cars, the attitude towards Russians was quite good and there were no quibbles. But the way further through Ovruch towards Zhytomyr is just terrible. If there was an opportunity to turn around and go the other way, I would have done it. The whole way was shaking on potholes so much that my wife almost gave birth prematurely. I will definitely not go this way anymore.