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Rafal Mekler, an organizer of the protests, also declared a set of demands that included a ban on importing sugar from Ukraine, compensation for Polish corn production, and subsidy payments for farmers.
Polish farmers will join the new blockade initiated by Polish truckers at the Dorohusk border checkpoint with Ukraine on Dec. 18, according to trucker spokesman Rafal Mekler said on Twitter.
"Today after 3 p.m., Polish carriers launched protests on the approaches toward the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint," the Border Guard Service wrote on Telegram, citing Polish border guards.
Border Guard Service spokesman Andrii Demchenko told the media that blockades continue at three crossing points, with the biggest queues at Shehyni-Medyka.
A 38-year-old Ukrainian driver became ill at a service area on Poland's A4 highway and called for help because of chest pains. While waiting for an ambulance, he lost consciousness and was transported to a hospital in Przemyśl, where he was pronounced dead by doctors, the Consul General in Lublin, Oleh Kuts, told Ukrinform on Dec. 16.