Poles detain Ukrainska Pravda journalist on border near Belarus while reporting on trade between Poland and Russia

by jaxoz

25 comments

  1. If you showed me this headline a year ago, I would’ve called you crazy

    Nowadays it’s not surprising in the slightest, insanity all around

  2. The Belarus border is off-limits. It’s too dangerous for anyone that isn’t in the Polish army.

  3. filming a border checkpoint with a hostile state is a good way to get arrested, go figure

    >It was clear that the representatives of the Polish special services were frightened. They began to ask me who else knew about it, whether the Ukrainian authorities and the Ukrainian government knew about it. They asked who our sources were, how we learned about it, and how long we have been working on this topic.”

    beyond parody

  4. Well, what did he expect to be honest? You cannot simply film and hang around that border willy-nilly, especially since the immigration crisis manufactured by Lukashenko. He probably spoke Ukrainian at first which for most people in Poland including me is indistiguishable from Russian which did not help. As a Pole, I would question it if there was no reaction at all.

  5. It was a cool and really troll idea, but he wouldn’t have succeeded in implementing it anyway. Unlike polish farmers, he does not have the right to stop and inspect the cargo inside.

    upd for party poopers: \s

  6. Ruzzian agricultural products doing brrrr in Poland. Meanwhile, Ukrainian products are banned. What a cool ally, don’t you think so?

  7. “Polish law enforcement officers have arrested Mykhailo Tkach and his cameraman close to the Polish-Belarusian border while they were filming a story about the transit of goods between Poland, Russia, and Belarus. The footage was partly deleted by the Polish authorities.”

    Why is Poland still trading with Belarus and Russia? Where are the brave Polish farmers?

  8. Ukrainians that are trying to frame Poland as the bad guy is beyond idiotic. I fully support Ukraine and I am not Polish. But all these articles after everything Poland has done for Ukraine are ridiculous.
    Yes maybe some Polish farmers were useful idiots for Putin, but this is being investigated and handled by the Polish authorities. But these reddit posts are no better, the problem should have been contained and not amplified. If I was Ukrainian, I would happily sacrifice a few tons of grain compared to everything else I am getting. This issue should be resolved in diplomacy. You should pick your fights.
    But what the hell do I know, I am just an idiot typing on his keyboard.

  9. Did he seriously record a very protected border with a hostile regime and he’s surprised that he got detained? What was he even recording there?

  10. Mykhailo Tkach is one of the best investigative journalists in Ukraine who has worked to uncover multiple huge corruption scandals, as well as Russian oligarchs living comfortably in Europe and UK. I highly doubt that he didn’t know about the rules on Polish border.

    Gonna wait for the end product of his investigation, bet it’ll be interesting.

  11. Funny seeing Ukraine all heated up and frustrated by that, meanwhile Belarus border has been a militarized zone closed for civilians for like 3 years already (surprised pikachu face why are they not letting me near it?) and recently a new law has been passed forbidding taking videos of critical infrastructure like railways, because ever since the war started we already arrested hundreds of paid Ukrainians/Russians/Belarusians filming and patrolling our railways to track military movements, some even wanted to do a sabotage. Polish-Ukrainian border was also recently added to critical infrastrucure by Tusk like a week ago. But muh “le evil Poland”, how dare they arrest some random le innocent Ukrainian taking fucking videos of militarized border and railways that have been tracked by Russian paid agents with attempts of sabotage?

  12. Ukrainians can’t into foreign politics.

    They think making an enemy out of the most friendly nation in Europe to the Ukrainian cause will somehow make Ukraine’s situation better?

  13. Guys, since Tusk left Ukraine, theres a huge disinfo campaign aimed at Poland. Idk if Ukrainian or russian. When I’m reading some of the comments it seems that we are worse to Ukraine than russia. So be it.

    Time will tell my friends, thats why it’s better to wait one week after such publications to get the full picture instead of spreading hate and engage in these kind of discussions.

  14. i think people misinterpret the meaning of this.

    while Polish farmers are blockading Ukrainian border, there is russian grain being transported through the Belarusian border without any protest there.

    moreover, while Poland is helping Ukraine and supporting us with arms, it still allows russian goods to flow through the border? Every sale is fuelling russian war chest.

    finally, the hybrid war that russia is doing in EU is working quite well. Russia is basically bombarding the world with discounted grain from its own farms + grain stolen from Ukraine. And EU instead of blockading the grain or doing at least something about it – now has to deal with farmers’ protests.

    as always, money rules.

  15. Even assuming that what this man claims is true. I’m curious as to why, in search of Russian imports, he went to the Polish-Belarusian border and not to the Russian-Latvian or Russian-Lithuanian borders, where this is done in huge quantities and no one even specifically hides it.

  16. Beyond parody, suddenly the supporters of “farmers” taking over border are supporting the sanctity of borders

  17. Reading comments of ukrainians here one would thought Poles are their worst enemies.

  18. Polish border has been declared as military zones for years now, that’s also reason why they got detained one of the laws there is prohibition of making pictures or videos.

  19. I am really happy to see that ppl here have some common sense. I mean, I am Polish, fully support Ukraine aid, my friends were hosting a woman with a daughter when the war started, she went for a vacations with us, we did everything we could for her to be comfortable knowing how bad is her situation.

    Just to remind you, UA had a perfect ally, Poland jumped straight into helping when the war started. Opened borders, sent whole wagons of amunition, tanks etc. all that while other nations were waiting if UA will hold for one another week.

    And now when I am seeing Ukrainians just publicly shaming Poland at every ocasion thay can, even spreading some misinfo, like we are the worse in Europe, it makes me sick tbh.

  20. Maybe Polish journalists should go to Ukraine and start investigating the trade between Ukraine and Russia? Two can play at that game.

  21. This area has been closed off since around 3 years ago, you need to live there, be part of public services, military or journalist with proper signage and helmet.

    There have been many people detained including Belarusian agents checking out the fence.

  22. „Ambassador Wasyl Zwarycz confirmed in an interview with Wirtualna Polska that he intervened in the matter of the detained journalist. – They recorded railway traffic and flew a drone. The police decided to check who it was so that it would not turn out that they were provocateurs. The matter was resolved quickly, Zwarycz assured.”

    The detention of the journalists was confirmed by Andrzej Fijołek, spokesman for the voivodeship commander in Lublin. – The police were alerted by concerned residents of Łuków, who had been seeing men with drones in this area for two days – he says in an interview with Wirtualna Polska.

    Due to the fact that it was a border area and there were railway lines nearby, a police patrol was sent to the site. The officers confirmed the information provided by the residents. However, to verify the journalists’ words and confirm their identity, they were taken to the police station.

    – Their data had to be verified. After their confirmation, the men left the headquarters. – adds the superintendent. Violet. At the same time, the police do not confirm that any recordings were allegedly deleted.

    https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/ukrainscy-dziennikarze-zatrzymani-policja-potwierdza-7000302737714144a?amp=1

    So people thought that they were Russian spies what was absolutely reasonable, I would think the same

  25. In addition to this illegal detention, threatening with prison, denying the right to a lawyer and secretly deleting the footage… Bravo is no worse than in dictatorial rusia or belarus

    Why they don’t catch the vandals who spoil the ukrainian agricultural products that are in transit is a rhetorical question.

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