Poles dispose of 30 tons of spilled Ukrainian corn

Collection of Ukrainian corn, which was poured from wagons onto the tracks. Photo: PAP.

In Kotomyr, Poland, the collection of Ukrainian corn, which was poured from wagons onto the tracks, was completed.

PAP writes about it.

In total, 160-180 tons of corn were dumped from freight cars. About 30 tons of them were not collected, an employee of the transport security company said. It is weighed at customs and fixed for further disposal: destruction or sale for biogas.

«Eight out of forty wagons were opened. The wagons were definitely opened by third parties. Customs ropes with a thickness of 8 millimeters were cut. In this way, the double side doors of the wagons were opened,» the message reads.

It is noted that the grain was transported from Ukraine in transit to Germany, where it was supposed to go to Morocco.

We will remind that the chief of staff of the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Jan Grabec, said that Poland and Ukraine are far from an agreement on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products blocked at the border by protesting Polish farmers.

On Tuesday, February 20, Polish protesters at the «Medyka — Shehyny» checkpoint blocked the railway and spilled grain from a freight car onto the track.

Before that, on February 11, in front of the checkpoint «Yahodyn — Dorohusk», where the movement of trucks has been blocked for the third day, Polish farmers dumped part of the grain from three Ukrainian trucks.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine condemned the deliberate destruction of Ukrainian grain by Polish protesters on the Ukrainian-Polish border.

On February 13, it became known that law enforcement officers in Poland opened a case against protesting farmers who spilled Ukrainian grain on the ground.