Polish farmers to suspend protest at Medyka-Szegini checkpoint for a week

Farmers who are blocking the border crossing in Medyka, Poland (Shehyni checkpoint on the Ukrainian side) will suspend their protest from Sunday.

This was reported by RMF FM.

According to the protest organizer Roman Kondrov of the organization “Deceived Village,” the protest will be suspended from 8 a.m. on Sunday until January 2 or 3, 2024.

He noted that if he receives a written statement from Prime Minister Donald Tusk that their demands will be met, the protest will probably not resume.

At a press conference, Poland’s new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Czeslaw Sekerski, assured that the demands would be met, but it would take time. He added that funds to fulfill some of the requirements are provided, in particular, in the state budget, which is currently under consideration.

At the press conference, it was also reported that an agreement had been signed in Medyka with farmers from the “United Village” who are protesting near the border crossing in Dorohusk in Lublin Voivodeship. The document contains such demands as the cessation of sugar imports from Ukraine and the immediate payment of direct subsidies.

As a reminder, farmers from the “Deceived Village” started blocking the border crossing in Medyka on November 23 this year. They are demanding, among other things, corn subsidies, additional money for liquidity loans, and keeping the agricultural tax at the current level next year.

Separately, representatives of the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and the Ukrainian Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure agreed on an action plan to unblock the border during a meeting in Kyiv on Friday, December 22.

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