Lithuanian farmers assured that they will not block Ukrainian grain

The head of the Lithuanian Grain Producers Association, Ausris Macijauskas, said that Lithuanian farmers are not going to join the Polish protest against the blocking of Ukrainian grain supplies. This was reported by the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT.

“Lithuanian farmers have not blocked, are not blocking and are not going to block Ukrainian grain… We see the problem, but we understand the situation – the leaders of Ukrainian farmers came last fall, we had a round table with them, we discussed how to do it (resolve the situation – ed.), of course, we need to control, we need to keep records, we need to do all this, which the Lithuanian government also does not do, but we are not going to block, as the Poles do,” Matsiuskas assured.

According to him, Russian grain is a bigger problem for Lithuanian farmers.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, since February 9, 2024, farmers have been protesting on the roads leading to checkpoints in Poland near the border with Ukraine. The main demands of the protesters are a ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products and Poland’s rejection of the European Green Deal. During this time, there have been five cases of Ukrainian crops spilling out of freight cars onto the tracks or from trucks on the roads.

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