Zelenskyy instructs Shmyhal to discuss situation on border with Polish PM

10:24, 16.02.2024 1 min read

As a result of a meeting on the situation on the Ukrainian-Polish border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal to hold urgent talks with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

“We in Ukraine view what has happened and is happening to our citizens and Ukrainian cargo as an obvious violation of the principles of solidarity. Ukrainian grain on the asphalt is not just a few dramatic shots. This is evidence of how emotions can become dangerous. We have to defend the good neighborliness and solidarity that are changing the history of the whole of Europe for the better. And together with Poland, we must establish a unified stance towards the imports of Russian grain and other Russian goods to European countries in order to protect our societies and specifically farmers, both Ukrainian and Polish. And we must always come to an agreement with each other – Ukrainians and Poles – so that our common enemy in Moscow cannot turn conflicts in our border area against the economy, borders and sovereignty of each of us,” Zelenskyy said in a video address Thursday evening.