About 700 Armenian heavy cargo trucks waiting to pass through Upper  Lars

ArmInfo. About 700 trucks are waiting to pass through the Upper Lars checkpoint.  Customs attach‚  of the Armenian Embassy in Russia Vahan Hakobyan told ArmInfo.

In particular, at the moment about 300 trucks have left Armenia, some  of them are on the territory of Georgia, the other part is being  processed at the Upper Lars checkpoint.  "About 300-400 trucks are  returning from Russia, they are waiting for the opening of the road  to return to Armenia," Hakobyan said.

This morning it was reported that the Cross Pass on the Gudauri-Kobi  section of the Mtskheta- Stepantsminda-Lars highway is closed to  freight transport in both directions due to snow; passage is allowed  for passenger cars.

The Georgian Military Road is currently the only land route  connecting Armenia with Russia. And the Kazbegi -Upper Lars  checkpoint is the only checkpoint currently functioning on the land  border of Georgia and Russia. It periodically closes due to bad  weather.