On February 20, Polish farmers will block all border crossings between Poland and Ukraine, as well as access roads to railway transshipment stations and sea ports.
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All border crossings will be blocked, as well as transport hubs, access roads to railway transshipment stations and sea ports, the Solidarity trade union of individual farmers said in a statement.
They call on the public to support their action and claim that the protest is aimed at ensuring food security in the country.
Farmer protests have been going on for many weeks, not only in Poland, but throughout Europe. Farmers are opposed not only to the influx of food from Ukraine, but also to EU rules related to the European Green Deal.
The Chelm District Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the spilling of grain from Ukrainian trucks near the Polish-Ukrainian border. According to the speaker of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin, Agnieszka Kempka, the investigation is being conducted in two directions – destruction of property and violation of customs security.
Proceedings in the case are ongoing. We are interviewing witnesses and providing monitoring and documentation from these three trucks,” Kempka said.
For the committed actions, he faces up to five years in prison.
On February 20, Polish farmers will protest in Warsaw. The coordinator of the strikes in Minsk-Mazowiecki, Łukasz Komarowski, told the Wirtualna Polska portal about this.
According to unofficial information, the farmers’ targets will be distribution centers of the Biedronka, Lidl, Auchan and Carrefour retail chains.
If they force us, we will block the distribution trains. A few days of protest are enough and goods will stop coming to stores,” said one of the strike participants, reports the Novaya Polsha publication.
On February 13, Polish farmers blocked the sixth border crossing from Ukraine to Korczowa-Krakovets.
In addition, Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekierski apologized for Ukrainian grain spilled by Polish protesters on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Sekierski’s statement was published by the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.
On behalf of Polish farmers, I apologize for this act of despair and ask for understanding of their extremely difficult situation. “We are conducting technical negotiations with the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture, during which we want to determine trade terms that would limit the influx of goods that undermine the stability of agri-food markets,” said the Polish minister.
He called the grain rash “not an entirely adequate form of protest” and added that it was “often resorted to by farmers in different countries.”
Source: Racurs
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