farmers dump Ukrainian grain at the border, prosecutor’s office opens investigation

The Polish prosecutor’s office announced on Monday February 12 that it had opened an investigation into an incident on the Polish-Ukrainian border, where Polish farmers blocking crossing points dumped grain from Ukraine intended for the Union onto the road. European. “The investigation has been opened. We are gathering documents, interviewing witnesses and preserving images which will likely constitute key evidence.”declared the spokesperson for the Lublin prosecutor’s office.

In images shared on social media, we can see piles of grain, sometimes covered with a European Union flag, in the middle of a road, as part of demonstrations organized across Poland to protest against competition from Ukraine and European regulations.

The images of Polish farmers dumping Ukrainian wheat on the ground are disgusting in Ukraine: 1) this wheat was harvested at the risk of those who worked the land, 2) in the 1940s, 4 million Ukrainians were died when Stalin stole every grain pic.twitter.com/wkUaMbc7QJ

— Stéphane Siohan (@stefsiohan) February 12, 2024

This action aroused strong reactions in Ukraine, a country with a strong agricultural tradition that has been facing the Russian invasion for two years and where millions of people died in 1932-1933 during the Holodomor, a period of great famine organized by the regime. Stalinist. The Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy declared “firmly denounce” there “deliberate destruction” of cereals which “has nothing to do with peaceful protests, either legally or morally.” “We are closely following the investigation into this incident and hope that the perpetrators will be quickly identified and punished”he added.