Kyiv and Warsaw are negotiating a solution to the ongoing border blockade by Polish farmers, as there is no free movement of trucks at any crossing, Ukraine’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi said on air on Feb. 21. Polish farmers launched a new wave of protests on the border in early February in response to […]
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal to hold urgent talks with his Polish counterpart on the border situation with Poland. Source: Zelenskyy’s video address Quote: “I instructed the Prime Minister of Ukraine to immediately hold a conversation with his Polish counterpart. We in Ukraine view what has happened and is […]
As of Tuesday morning, about 1,250 lorries were queuing at the border between Ukraine and Poland. Source: Andrii Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast Quote: “As of now, there are five such checkpoints (where traffic for lorries is blocked – ed.). …A small number of […]
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, believes that Ukraine and Poland should start a real conversation about how to solve bilateral problems on the way to the European Union in order to prevent crises such as border blockades or the grain crisis. Source: The minister said this in an interview with the Polish publication Uklad Sil, […]