Hundreds of trucks travel from Belarus to Poland every day, bringing food and grain to the European Union. In Belarus there are special centers for transshipment of Russian grain, which is purchased by European and, including Polish companies.
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This is stated in the UP investigation. On February 27, Polish police detained and interrogated UP journalist Mikhail Tkach near the border.
“We left precisely in those days when, on the eve of the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion, Polish farmers or those who stand behind them completely blocked the border crossing points with Ukraine,” Tkach wrote.
Near Lodz and Warsaw, the investigator visited a Polish enterprise that was one of the top 5 buyers of Russian food.
Tkach came up with a legend that he was a representative of a Belarusian company and was offering a Polish company to buy rapeseed meal. The Pole does not refuse, since there are no sanctions on agricultural products.
In September 2023, Poland banned the import of rapeseed meal from Ukraine. However, only because of Belarus, this type of grain has since been imported to Poland for $8 million.
For the second year in a row, the aggressor country, having seized part of the territory of Ukraine, stolen our grain and destroyed a number of infrastructure facilities, is actively seizing the world market for agricultural products. Over the past year, it has increased its share in world wheat exports from 16 to 24%. This season, Russian exports will more than double those of the United States and 1.5 times those of the EU. Meanwhile, there are still no EU sanctions on Russian agricultural products. It can legally, freely and using the European Union infrastructure enter the EU and beyond, or vice versa.
Let us recall that on February 28, Trade Representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka said that during negotiations on unblocking the border, Ukraine and Poland found a common language and are working on a constructive solution.
Four hours of very intense negotiations with the Minister of Development and Technology of Poland, Krzysztof Getman, and the Minister of Agriculture of Poland, Czeslaw Shekierski. One of the most eventful and intense meetings of my professional life. We were able to find a common language and are working on a constructive solution on how to unblock the border and take into account the interests of farmers in Poland and Ukraine. It’s not easy, but it can be. The approaches proposed by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal during his speech on the Polish-Ukrainian border are important for building a possible understanding. During the entire four hours of negotiations, the option of closing the border was not mentioned, Duck subsequently wrote about the coups.
Source: Racurs
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