It seems that blocking highways in Volyn is becoming a tradition: in the summer, a milk strike was ongoing on the roads, then the highway was blocked twice at the Ukrainian-Polish border. And now Volyn residents have once again taken to the road. Last Tuesday, drivers traveling on the Lutsk – Horokhiv highway in the morning were stuck in long traffic jams near Skobelka. Local people blocked the road with a human chain. Residents of Skobelka, Markovychi and Bystrovytsia are demanding that district, regional and Kyiv authorities assist in completing the construction of the local school. In addition to fifty adults, 80 children also came out onto the road. Parent committee activist Klavdiia Dmytruk told the newspaper "Sim`ia i dim" about the situation in the village: "The currently operating school was built 175 years ago. It is in a state of emergency. The stove heating is such that children study in winter with their clothes on. Skobelka also has a long-term construction project in education: a new school has been under construction for 13 years. It is 70 percent complete – 4 million hryvnias are lacking for interior work." On July 24, parent meetings were held in Skobelka, at which fairly tough decisions were adopted: people warned authorities at all levels about holding protest actions, and on September 1 parents intend not to let their children into the old school and accordingly on September 2 to block the road again. Klavdiia Dmytruk said that parent committee activists had a conversation with the head of the district state administration and the regional state administration, but so far, apart from the request to "endure and wait," nothing concrete has been heard about the possibility of completing the school. That is why on Tuesday people came out onto the road... Meanwhile, we have learned that criminal cases have already been opened against the organizers of the protest action under Article 279, Part 1 "Blocking transport communications." The head of the district police department, Anatolii Trofimov, told us that the highway was blocked at a place where it is impossible to bypass it. In total, 109 vehicles accumulated on both sides of the road.