The Polish government has decided to temporarily ban the import of grains and dozens of other food products from Ukraine, said Yaroslav Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, RMF24 writes..

He stressed that the representatives of Warsaw remain friends and allies for Kyiv " The reason for such a "

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The politician explained that the ban was introduced taking into account the asymmetry between Polish and Ukrainian agriculture, in particular, due to the difference in the quality of land, areas and cheaper labor in our state..

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Kaczynski repeated that Warsaw wants to have closer relations with Kiev, but "

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According to the decree, which the Minister of Development and Technology, Waldemar Buda, published on Twitter the day before, Poland will prohibit the import of our grain and other goods into its territory until June 30, 2023..

We are talking, in particular, about the termination of the supply of grain, sugar, dry feed, seeds, hops, flax, hemp, fruits and vegetables, processed fruits and vegetables, wine, beef and veal, milk and dairy products, pork, lamb, eggs.

Last week, Ukraine decided to temporarily refrain from exporting four grain crops to Poland: wheat, corn, sunflower and rapeseed due to the grain crisis in the European Union.. Too cheap Ukrainian grain caused chaos in the EU, against the backdrop of which the Minister of Agriculture Henryk Kowalczyk resigned in Poland.

However, now the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine regrets the decision of Poland to suspend supplies from our state. The department noted that they have always advocated and advocate " As noted in the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the decision of the Polish government contradicts the agreements between the two countries.

" It is on the territory of Ukraine that the war is going on, it is Ukrainian farmers who suffer enormous losses from the war of Russia against Ukraine, and it is Ukrainian farmers who die in their fields from Russian mines. At the same time, Ukrainian agricultural producers are sympathetic to the needs of their Polish colleagues, hope for mutual understanding and expect a constructive dialogue to make an agreed decision,"

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy stressed that "

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" Crisis phenomena should push our states to even closer cooperation in all areas in order to eliminate the root cause of these problems - Russian aggression,"

Despite the global rise in wheat prices and food risks for a number of countries, half of Ukrainian grain, which is so hard to export from the country, is exported at an incredible 40% discount.. Why it happened, Yulia Samaeva explains in the article “How did it happen that we have the cheapest wheat in the world”.