Polish protesters block two terminals on the border with Ukraine

Polish farmers partially blocked the access roads of two terminals on the Ukrainian-Polish border – Pryzmat Hrubieszów and PKP CARGO CONNECT. Latifundist.com reports this with reference to a top manager of Ukrzaliznytsia.

“Railroad traffic is going on there, everything is moving, no one is blocking the tracks, but there is a partial blocking of access roads and some terminals,” he said.

In addition, Polish protesters are posting posts and videos of the terminal blockade on social network X.

Protester Mariusz Giesek calls for blocking the transshipment terminal in Hrubieszów.

“Hrubieszów, we are holding the transshipment terminal, we are running out of patience, because the owner of the terminal is starting to blackmail the starosta,” he wrote on social network X.

According to Latifundist.com, Polish protesters entered the territory of the PKP CARGO CONNECT terminal on the night of February 13, but the guard called the police and they were forced to leave. Later, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland, Michal Kolodziejczak, arrived at the terminal.

In one of the videos posted by farmer Hubert Ojdan Kolodziejczak and the protesters talk to the director of PKP CARGO CONNECT in Dorohusk and demand documents for the goods.

The official demanded data on how much and what kind of goods had crossed the border and where they were headed next. The director of PKP CARGO CONNECT claimed that trade associations had not approved the dissemination of this data.

In addition, one of the videos on TikTok shows protesters driving up to the terminal and climbing onto the railroad cars.

Earlier it became known that Polish farmers blocked one of the factories near Hrubieszów, which recently received Ukrainian corn flour.

Tags: Poland, protests, rail transportation