From: Roman Sheremeta – Something is seriously broken in Poland. Hundreds of trucks from Poland are constantly traveling to Belarus and back, while Ukrainian trucks are blocked.
A Ukrainian journalist, Mykhailo Tkach, whom I know personally, was recently detained by Polish police for investigating the trade activities between Poland and Belarus.
According to his investigation, hundreds of trucks from Poland are daily traveling to Belarus and back. They carry russian products. Products from russia go to Poland through Belarus, being reloaded in Belarus into trucks with Polish license plates.
Last year, Poland imported $450 million worth of goods from Belarus, $2.6 billion from Russia. Despite the russian war against Ukraine, the Poles are only strengthening cooperation with these countries.
At the same time, only in February, Ukraine lost $210 million due to the blockade of Ukrainian products on the Polish borders by the so called “Polish farmers.” For the past few weeks, these thugs destroyed hundreds of tons of Ukrainian grain and wouldn’t even allow civilian cars to pass by at the boarder. I personally had to switch to train in order to get to Ukraine.
Of course, most Poles, instead of apologizing and acknowledging that something is seriously broken in Poland, will complain and tell me that I am an ungrateful Ukrainian, that I am trolling Poland, that it is just a minority, that it is all russian agents, that Poland is a democratic country and everyone is free to do what they want.
No, something is seriously broken in Poland.
I will end by making two points. First, over the past two years, I have wrote dozens of grateful posts acknowledging and thanking all Poles who stood with Ukraine in its darkest hour. Ukriane will forever be grateful to Poland for that!
Also, my grandma was Polish, so Polish blood is also in my veins. But I am not going to hide behind my Polish roots to justify this despicable behavior. The current behavior that I see in Poland is nothing short of disappointment.
Something is seriously broken in Poland.
Voice of Ukraine 