Poles unblock Russian border but completely close two checkpoints with Ukraine

Polish farmers have suspended a protest on the border with the Russian Federation in Grzechotki, which they started last week.

The farmers are surprised by the amount of goods coming to the European Union from Russia, Polish Radio reports.

“The European Union has not yet decided to ban grain imports from Russia to the Community. Despite the fact that the countries have condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine, trade with Russia continues. A lot of things are transported, including gas, and not only liquefied gas, one driver said he was carrying methane,” adds Jerzy Salitra from the board of the Warmia and Mazury Chamber of Agriculture.

Nevertheless, the organizers of the action said that the border blockade would be terminated due to the upcoming Easter holidays. Earlier, the protesters were more determined, announcing a blockade of the Russian border for at least a month.

At the same time, over the weekend, Polish protesters completely blocked the movement of trucks towards Poland at the Yagodyn and Rava-Ruska checkpoints. This was reported by the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, Andriy Demchenko, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, at two checkpoints – Yagodyn and Rava-Ruska – Polish farmers do not allow trucks traveling from Ukraine to Poland to pass through at all.

“Over the recent period, we have zero border crossings to leave Ukraine. Of course, they allow a certain number of trucks to cross to Ukraine, but this is far from ideal, from the capacity of each of these directions,” said the SBGS spokesman.

According to him, about 60 trucks crossed into Ukraine through the Yahodyn checkpoint on March 23.

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