OREANDA-NEWS  Russia is monitoring the difficulties and incoming information on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry is closely monitoring any information about possible difficulties in the operation of the border crossing system between the two countries, and is promptly responding to this through diplomatic channels," the diplomat said.

Zakharova also added that most trucks have accumulated in Kazakhstan's parking lots at checkpoints and do not cross the state border.

In autumn, thousands of trucks began accumulating on the border of Kazakhstan with Russia. "Lenta.<url> found out that the problem is not unique to the border with Russia. Queues of thousands of trucks have also accumulated at the checkpoint between Kazakhstan and China. At the same time, the improvement of the situation remains questionable due to technical difficulties, as well as Astana's ambiguous position on the issue of sanctions against Russia.