Polish farmers suspended a protest action in the village of Grzechotki on the border with Russia because of the approaching Easter holidays, Polish Radio reported on 24 March.
Farmers are surprised by the amount of goods entering the European Union from Russia. Jerzy Salitra from the board of the Warmia and Mazury Chamber of Agriculture said:
“The European Union has not yet decided to ban grain imports from Russia to the Community. Trade with Russia is constantly ongoing. They transport a lot of things, including gas, and not just liquefied gas, one driver said he was carrying methane.”
It was originally planned that the farmers would block traffic at the Russian border crossing for at least a month, allowing one vehicle per hour through. At the same time, the blockade of the border with Ukraine, which Polish farmers reinforced on 20 February, continued.
On 24 March, a representative of the State Border Service said that Polish farmers prevented trucks from leaving Ukraine at the Yahodyn and Rava-Ruska checkpoints.
Poles also do not allow lorries from Ukraine to pass through the Uhryniv checkpoint, the spokesman for the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko said.
