Zelenskyy invites Poland’s leaders to border to resolve farmers’ protests
Al Jazeera
Polish farmers have been protesting Ukrainian food imports, angry at what they say is unfair competition.
Ukraine’s president has invited Polish leaders to meet him at their shared border to resolve a blockade by Polish farmers protesting Ukrainian food imports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media on Wednesday that he hoped the proposed border meeting for him, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and a European Union representative could happen before the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, February 24.
“This is national security,” Zelenskyy said. “I am ready to be at the border with our government.”
“We have had enough misunderstanding. We should not humiliate each other; we should not humiliate either Ukrainian or Polish farmers. We need unity. We need solutions – between us, Ukraine and Poland, and at the level of the whole of Europe,” Zelenskyy said in a statement.
There was no immediate reaction from the Polish government.
