'Stop hurting Ukraine' - Polish PM Tusk asks farmers to end border blockades
Warning that the fate of the war could be decided soon, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on protesting farmers to end their border blockades, Polish Radio reported.
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Warning that the fate of the war could be decided soon, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on protesting farmers to end their border blockades, Polish Radio reported.
Polish farmers are currently preventing trucks from leaving Ukraine at the Yahodyn and Rava-Ruska checkpoints, Andriy Demchenko, spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service, said on March 24.
The Cabinet of Ministers is holding an off-site meeting in Lviv Oblast, with the blockade of the border being one of the key issues. Source: Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine, on Telegram Quote: "Today, we are holding an off-site government meeting.
Lithuania decided Wednesday to seal off another two of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia. This brings the total of closed border crossings into the Baltic country to four. Vilnius also decided to suspend the movement of pedestrians and cyclists through the last remaining checkpoints.
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, has held an urgent meeting with Head of the Polish National Security Bureau Jacek Siewiera to discuss the blockade of passenger traffic across the Polish-Ukrainian border by Polish protesters.