Ukraine welcomes inspections of Ukrainian agricultural products that are exported or transit through Poland by Polish veterinary and phytosanitary inspectorates, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky said on the national telethon.

"Let our colleagues check. We are not afraid of inspections," he said, commenting on the statement of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland Michał Kołodziejczak, who on Monday announced upcoming inspections of all Ukrainian agricultural products, since the Polish authorities suspect that after transiting through the territory of Poland, Ukrainian goods are returned from Germany and other countries again to Poland, but under the guise of products manufactured in the European Union.

According to Solsky, the Ukrainian side is not aware of such precedents.

"It is, at a minimum, economically unprofitable to transport [agricultural products] to Hamburg, and then back to Warsaw. It doesn't work that way. Just like transporting them to Vilnius, and then back," the minister said.

He also said that during negotiations with his Lithuanian colleague on Tuesday, he asked whether he knew of such cases of re-export of Ukrainian agricultural products and received the answer that there is no such information in Lithuania yet, but the issue will be studied.

Solsky said that a very small amount of grain passes through Poland, since 90% of Ukrainian farmers for the third month in a row have preferred exporting agricultural products through the Ukrainian ports of Big Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny.

"The situation [with exports across the Black Sea] has returned to the pre-war one. Even if we cancel all the bans now [unilateral bans on the import of Ukrainian wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflowers to Poland, Slovakia and Hungary], then everything "equally, on the border with Poland, the price for transporting the majority of grain from most of the territory of Ukraine would be uncompetitive," the minister said, adding that in Ukraine they are calm about inspections and are not afraid of them.

Asked about the prospects for publishing new lists of grain importing companies in Poland in 2023, Solsky said that Ukraine would also familiarize itself with them with interest. He also recalled an old prosecutor's joke, according to which in any investigation the most important thing is not to expose yourself.

"We look forward to these results and look forward to the conclusions of our Polish colleagues," the Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine said.