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Blazing Tires Block Border Crossing Between Ukraine and Poland

<p>"Some information suggests that they are opposition protesters," a Polish official said.</p>
epa04041115 Burning tires are piled on the motorway to block the international route E40 in Nowojaworowsk in Ukraine, 25 January 2014. On the Ukrainian side the road leading from the border crossing Korczowa - Krakovets toward Lviv was blocked. The blockade is an expression of solidarity with the participants of anti-government protests on Independence Square in Kiev. EPA/DAREK DELMANOWICZ POLAND OUT
epa04041115 Burning tires are piled on the motorway to block the international route E40 in Nowojaworowsk in Ukraine, 25 January 2014. On the Ukrainian side the road leading from the border crossing Korczowa - Krakovets toward Lviv was blocked. The blockade is an expression of solidarity with the participants of anti-government protests on Independence Square in Kiev. EPA/DAREK DELMANOWICZ POLAND OUTDAREK DELMANOWICZ / EPA

Around 200 Ukrainians blocked a road to a border crossing into Poland on Wednesday.

"We have received information from people who still managed to cross the border that about 200 Ukrainians were blocking ... the road to the Korczowa crossing," a spokesman for Poland's border guard service said. "Some information suggests that they are opposition protesters."

The blockage was reported inside Ukrainian territory, near the crossing over the border to the Polish village of Korczowa.

- Reuters