Protesting Polish farmers spilled the entire contents of eight wagons of a train carrying grain from Ukraine to Poland.

A video published by the conservative French newspaper Le Figaro shows tons of corn piled up on the railway embankment next to the stopped train.

According to the Ukrainian government and the Polish police, on Sunday, February 25, Polish farmers opened eight wagons transporting corn from Ukraine to Poland and scattered it on the railway embankment.

The incident appears to be "another episode in Polish farmers' protests against imports of Ukrainian food, which they believe do not meet European standards and are much cheaper than local products."

Polish farmers have been protesting against imported grain shipments from Ukraine for weeks.

The paper adds: Poland has been one of Kiev's strongest supporters since the start of the 2022 Russian offensive.

But relations between the two countries have been poisoned by the trade conflict of the last months. The reason for this is that Brussels opened the borders of the European Union to Ukrainian agricultural products - the paper comments on the published recording.

Poland must punish those who spilled tons of Ukrainian grain near the border of the two countries last weekend, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Monday.

"All those who destroyed Ukrainian grain must be found (…) and punished. This is in the interests of two friendly, civilized European states," Kubrakov wrote on the X social network.

Over the weekend, 160 tons of Ukrainian grain were dumped from transport wagons and destroyed in the area of ​​a Polish railway station during a large-scale demonstration.

The Polish farmers are holding protest actions due to competition considered unfair due to the influx of Ukrainian grain and environmental protection regulations of the European Union, and have also blocked Polish-Ukrainian border crossings and highways.

On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the close relationship with Poland is important for Ukraine, but at the same time, it is ready to protect its businesses, which suffered damage due to the border closures created by Polish protesters.

The spokesperson of the Ukrainian border guard indicated on Monday that the border blockade continued on Monday.

Híradó.hu

MTI

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