LVIV, Jan. 10 - Residents in Ukraine's western Lviv region have partially blocked four checkpoints along the frontier with Poland to protest against new border-tax regulations, RFE/RL reported.

The checkpoints at Rava-Ruska, Shehyni, Yahodyn, and Krakovets were blocked for several hours on January 10, with the protesters allowing only vehicles carrying children and ill people to cross the border.

The protesters said they started collecting signatures for a petition calling on Ukraine’s president and lawmakers to cancel the new regulations that came in force as of January 1.