Polish farmers began to unblock the border with Ukraine

After the end of the local elections and receiving aid from the EU, the Polish authorities began to react more actively to blocking the border with Ukraine, so local farmers began to unblock the checkpoints. With strikes at the border, Polish farmers obtained additional funding from the EU and a promise to review the "Green Deal" policy in European agriculture.

Yesterday, farmers ended the blockade of the "Dorogusk-Yagodin" checkpoint, which lasted since February 9, and the day before resumed the movement of trucks through the "Sheghini-Medyka" and "Krakivets-Korchova" crossings.

The "Rava-Ruska-Grebenne" point remains blocked on the Polish side, but the protesters promised to allow up to 60 trucks a day to leave Ukraine, excluding transport transporting agricultural products (cargoes of groups 1-24).

After the summit of the European Council, Polish Prime Minister D. Tusk said that the country's authorities cannot allow blocking of borders regardless of the reasons for the protests and called on farmers to stop blocking the border with Ukraine, which is in a difficult situation after the latest Russian attacks, and also asked " everyone in Poland not to do anything that could harm Ukraine."

Trade associations and chambers of Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands and Italy have called on all EU companies, including representatives of their transport departments, to boycott Polish carriers that have blockaded Ukraine's border with Poland, and not to conclude or renew contracts with them until they end the blockade.

Despite the partial unblocking of the Ukraine-Poland border and the prospect of increased supplies of agricultural products from Ukraine to the EU, quotations for wheat and rapeseed on European exchanges rose yesterday, which indicates the low impact of Ukrainian grain on world prices.