Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s agriculture sector have split Kyiv and Warsaw, as Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki looks to protect his country’s farmers.
WARSAW — Poland will no longer send weapons to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday, sharply escalating a battle over grain exports that has driven a wedge between Kyiv and one of its strongest supporters in the fight against Russia’s invasion.Russia has targeted Ukraine’s vital agricultural sector, disrupting transit routes in the Black Sea and repeatedly bombing the country’s grain infrastructure.
For Poland, the end of the E.U.-sanctioned embargo occurred just a month ahead of elections, in which the right-wing populist Law and Justice party is battling to stay in power. The party presents itself as the champion of Polish farmers and had amped up rhetoric against the European Union at campaign events, promising to protect Polish grain producers.
to Ukraine, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and it has taken in more than 1.5 million refugees.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky caused fury in Warsaw on Tuesday when he insinuated that Poland was playing into the hands of Russia during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He accused “some in Europe” of feigning solidarity in “political theater” and creating a “thriller from the grain.
Poland summoned the Ukrainian ambassador in Warsaw on Wednesday in response to the comments. Speaking to Polsat, Morawiecki condemned Zelensky’s “very strong words,” which he said Poland “fundamentally” rejects.
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