Police officers, customs officers, and railway workers stand next to piles of corn spilled from train cars in the Polish village of Kotomierz, near the Ukrainian border, on February 25.
Polish farmers protesting this month against what they say is unfair competition from Ukraine and European Union environment regulations have blocked border crossings with Ukraine and motorways, and spilled Ukrainian produce from train wagons.
Comment: Ukrainian grain has been shown to be contaminated with mold, GMO and unacceptable levels of chemicals. Notably American megacorporations have been increasingly buying vast tracts of Ukraine's top agricultural land. But the main reason European farmers are furious is that Ukrainian grain, heavily discounted to pay for NATO's war, is flooding the EU market and hitting European farmers hard.
"These pictures show 160 tons of destroyed Ukrainian grain. The grain was in transit to the port of Gdansk and then to other countries," Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov posted on X with photographs of mounds of grain spilled from train wagons.
"The fourth case of vandalism at Polish railway stations. The fourth case of impunity and irresponsibility."
Previous incidents of grain being spilled from trains took place on the border with Ukraine.
"We know that protests that take the form of spilling grain are not good," Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski told a news conference. But he added that he thought that sometimes the reaction to such incidents from the Ukrainian side went too far.
Lidia Kowalska, a police spokesperson from the northern Polish city of Bydgoszcz, said the incident took place in the nearby village of Kotomierz and the product spilled was corn.
"The details and circumstances are being investigated," she told Reuters. "At 0930 we received a report about grain that had spilled out, it turned out that it was from eight wagons."
Ukraine isn't even in the EU yet they are being given preferential treatment over EU farmers to sell their american GMO crap that was once banned in the EU.
Forget negotiations, forget promises. forget the threats, forget the attempted bribery, direct action is now the only thing that makes our gov't shysters sit up and take notice. Maybe this is because they all have profits that are affected. One will get nowhere talking to these people because they pay only lip service. They have no intention of honouring anything they agree to.