Protesting farmers in Poland dumped Ukrainian grain onto the railway tracks

At the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka, Polish farmers broke into two wagons of Ukrainian corn and emptied them onto the railroad tracks. They are protesting against the agricultural product imports from Ukraine.

“Enough of illegal imports from Ukraine,” chant the farmers. Similar protests are ongoing in other European Union countries. European farmers are disadvantaged by the cheap products supplied by Ukrainian agricultural oligarchs, preventing local farmers from selling their own harvest. The farmers demand a ban on Ukrainian imports to end the blockade. Currently, the Poles have closed all border crossings, including regular transport and even military supplies from Poland to the Ukrainian army.

In response, Ukrainians have also initiated a blockade. Protesters at the border are stopping Polish trucks. Nevertheless, the official response from Kyiv is to ignore the situation, which is turning into a total blockade. How Zelensky plans to address this problem is entirely unclear; he has not proposed any solutions other than publicly criticizing Warsaw’s actions.