2024-02-12 15:39:00
Renewed tension between Poland and Ukraine. A new crisis broke out between the two countries on Monday February 12, after an incident at the common border where Polish farmers dumped Ukrainian cereals destined for the European Union on the road. Subsequently, the Polish prosecutor’s office announced that it had opened an investigation.
“We are interviewing witnesses and keeping images which will probably constitute essential evidence,” assured the spokesperson for the Lublin prosecutor’s office (in the east of the country), Agnieszka Kepka. This action sparked strong reactions in Ukraine, a country with a strong agricultural tradition that has been facing the Russian invasion for two years. The Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy also declared, this Monday, in a press release, “strongly denouncing the deliberate destruction” of grain which “has nothing to do with peaceful protests, whether from a point of view legal or moral view.
Unfair competition
The day before, Polish farmers had already stopped a truck carrying Ukrainian grain as it crossed the border. They then dumped its cargo, as a sign of protest against what they consider to be unfair competition from their Ukrainian colleagues.
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