Bracing for the annual New Year’s queues of cars from Poland, Maxim Nefedov, head of the new Customs Service, writes preemptively on Facebook: “Sorry for the current state of things.” Looking ahead, he says his agency plans to invest $20 million in upgrading almost all the crossings on Ukraine’s Western border. Next year, 14 are to be rebuilt, followed by two more in 2021 and two more in 2022.