Warsaw and Kyiv’s agriculture ministers were to hold emergency talks on Wednesday as Polish farmers blockaded border crossings with Ukraine in a renewed dispute over grain imports.
Protesters at six road crossings have blocked or disrupted the passage of about 7,000 trucks waiting to enter Poland from Ukraine and some 2,500 seeking to travel in the other direction. The demonstrations have also disrupted Ukrainian imports entering Poland via rail.
Ukraine’s border queue registration site estimates that the trucks could be forced to wait for between 13 days and two months to cross, which could return the border to a similar crisis situation to late last year when protesting Polish hauliers blockaded crossings for more than two months.