It should be an emotional show: Poland reacts to destroyed Ukrainian agricultural machinery brought to the border

Ukrainian farmers have brought agricultural machinery damaged or destroyed by Russian invaders to the border with Poland. Starting today, it will be placed at the Krakowiec-Korczowa checkpoint. In this way, Ukrainian farmers want to show Polish protesters the conditions in which farmers in Ukraine are currently working.

This was reported by the Ukrainain Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

Among the agricultural machinery that was shot were tractors, a sprayer, a GAZ-53 truck, and combines from the de-occupied territories of the Kherson region. For example, the K-701 tractor was provided by an enterprise located in the Bilozerska village community and occupied from March to November 2022.

“Ukrainian farmers emphasize that they are fighting for the harvest at the cost of their lives. In 2023, in the Kherson region alone, in the de-occupied territories, 20 farmers were injured by Russian mines, five of them died,” the statement said.

The shot agricultural machinery will remain at the border until the end of March.

Rafał Mekler, co-organizer of the Polish farmers’ protests, reacted to the event and wrote that it “should be an emotional show aimed at putting pressure on the Poles to export grain to Poland.”

“I can go to the post-harvest parking lots, I can record a movie where the equipment taken from farmers is standing, I can go to court auctions where farmers lose their farms because they have no loans. We can create such a narrative, too,” Meckler wrote on the social network X.

Tags: Poland, protests, Ukraine