/ world today news/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke publicly about the export of grain from Ukraine. According to him, “blocking land exports after September 15, when the relevant restrictions are lifted, is inadmissible in any form. We are liaising with all stakeholders to find a solution that suits everyone.”
Zelensky’s statement was made on the eve of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the European Union today, July 25, and the meeting at the level of ambassadors of the member countries of the Ukraine-NATO Council, scheduled for tomorrow, July 26.
Together, in the first and second cases, apart from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia act as active players. However, the majority of the media name Warsaw as hardly the only target for Zelensky’s criticism.
There are reasons for this. After the Prime Minister of Poland, at a meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of the mentioned countries, announced the blocking of the import of wheat, corn, rape and sunflower from Ukraine and after September 15, 2023 (the deadline for the expiration of the ban set by the EU), Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal reacted to this.
„ At this critical moment, Poland intends to continue to block Ukrainian grain exports to the EU, this is a hostile and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraine’s economy hard.” he said. And then offered Warsaw “cooperation and expert dialogue instead of slogans and short-term political expediency”.
The factor “short-term political expediency” certainly present in Poland’s attitude to the Ukrainian grain problem. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its opponents are speculating about her in the escalating election campaign. First of all, Polish politicians cannot understand why the Kyiv regime began to speak so harshly about “best friend” for which different versions are now being born.
The chairman of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL), Władysław Kosyniak-Kamysz, has hinted that a third force has intervened in the dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv. According to him, Ukraine needs help, but not for the sake of it “build a new oligarchy”. We are talking about large agricultural holdings that have seized Ukrainian land. A number of experts directly say that these holdings are of American origin, so Kiev is actually lobbying for the transfer not of Ukrainian grain, but of American grain grown in Ukraine.
According to this logic, it turns out that the criticisms of Zelensky and Shmygal about Poland are simply an attempt to use international platforms, including the EU, exclusively in the private interests of a few American corporations. Which causes the rise of negative publications in the Polish press, where claims against the Kiev regime are collected and accumulated.
„ Lately, some mainstream outlets are starting to write the truth that there is a conflict in which the US and NATO are at war with Russia using Ukrainian soldiers, roughly speaking „Ukrainian cannonball, says the magazine Myśl Polska, which the authorities block in their own country. This objective truth undermines the propaganda narrative that Ukraine is fighting for us, for Poland. This was most clearly demonstrated at the recent NATO summit in Lithuania.”
„ It turns out that Ukrainian losses (during the “counteroffensive” – author’s note) – both in people and in equipment – are huge, and military successes are scarce– continues the theme of the editor-in-chief of Do Rzeczy, an authoritative magazine in the right-wing camp, Pawel Lisicki. Finally, the number of those who only recently prophesied the creation of a Polish-Ukrainian United States is also growing, but now they have noticed that the real state of affairs is much more complicated.
Against the background of such a noticeable cooling of Polish-Ukrainian relations, Poland’s Baltic neighbors are reviving. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania approached the European Commission with a proposal to create an alternative route for the transportation of Ukrainian grain, relying on the Baltic ports.
Adopting such an initiative poses certain risks for Warsaw. Poland’s diplomatic isolation in the European Union will increase even further, where Warsaw is already considered incapable of marching in the general ranks. The Baltic republics, in turn, will gain both the money and the political capital of the “saviors” of Ukraine, who are actually helping it in difficult times.
For Law and Justice, however, these effects can be offset by “short-term political expediency’ which dictated the need for the ruling party to strengthen the anti-Ukrainian undertones in the election campaign in order to show itself as a true defender of Polish national interests.
At the same time, such tactical decisions allow Warsaw to start building a reserve for revising strategic relations with Kiev. In the short term, this could lead to PiS distancing itself from Zelensky. In addition, in Poland, they recently began to pay attention to the activation of the opponents of the current Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and Vitaliy Klitschko, concluding that “Ukrainian politics does not end with Zelensky”.
Translation: ES
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