Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said that the protest action of agrarians from Poland, who are dissatisfied with the liberalisation of the European Union’s trade relations with Ukraine, is “politically motivated”.
According to Oleg Nikolenko, the suspension of traffic on the Polish-Ukrainian border, “no matter what slogans it is accompanied by, has no justification”. The diplomat called on Warsaw to provide a legal assessment of the actions of the protesters, ensure the unblocking of checkpoints and take measures to “stop anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, which is based on groundless arguments”.
“We also consider unacceptable the aggressive attitude of the protesters towards Ukrainians and Ukrainian goods crossing the Polish-Ukrainian border. The anti-Ukrainian slogans heard at the border confirm the politically motivated nature of the action. Its goal is to provoke further aggravation of bilateral relations,” Oleh Nikolenko wrote on Facebook*.
We will remind, earlier the mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovoy mentioned that farmers from Poland, who are dissatisfied with the liberalisation of trade relations of the European Union with Ukraine, “pro-Russian provocateurs”. In turn, farmers at a meeting with the Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Seckerski put forward an initiative to temporarily close the borders with Ukraine.
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