Polish farmers are staging protests against cheap Ukrainian grain flooding the market and EU regulations on pesticide and fertiliser usage.
Footage on social media appeared to show grain being spilled onto a train track from a goods wagon at the Medyka crossing.
A Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, called the act a “political provocation aimed at dividing our nations”.
Polish protest organisers are demanding the introduction of an import ban on Ukrainian agriculture products and the scrapping of restrictions on the use of fertilisers and pesticides under the EU Green Deal.
Poland’s new pro-EU government is sympathetic to the farmers’ demands and is urging Brussels to reach a compromise over imports with Ukraine.
In January, the EU said it would introduce a “safeguard mechanism” that would allow it to reimpose emergency tariffs on Ukraine if an excess of imports threatened to destabilise the market.
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