Hundreds of trucks from Poland are constantly traveling to Belarus and back, while Ukrainian carriers are blocked, investigation by Ukrainska Pravda journalists.
Products from Russia go to Poland through Belarus, being reloaded in Belarus into trucks with Polish license plates. Last year, Poland imported $450 million worth of goods from Belarus, $2.6 billion from Russia. Despite the war, the Poles are only strengthening cooperation with these countries.
Hundreds of trucks from Poland are constantly traveling to Belarus and back, while Ukrainian carriers are blocked, investigation by Ukrainska Pravda journalists.
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by Arty_beaver
4 comments
What you doing Poland??
It’s nothing new though? Officials statistics already show thousands of tons imported grain from russia/Belarus.
https://fakehunter.pap.pl/raport/6533eba8-bc36-41e1-be71-144fce7d434c
> The Ukrainian website “АНТИКОР” reported that “Poland, by blocking Ukrainian grain, lets through in large quantities that imported from Russia.” According to the portal, 12 million tons of Russian grain entered our country in 2022-23, while Ukrainian grain entered only 4.3 million tons. The publication suggests that Poles are disturbed by the import of agricultural crops from Ukraine, but not anymore from Russia. The original source of the report is the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation. On its YouTube channel, this Ukrainian government agency on February 17 published a video claiming 12 tons of Russian grain imported into Poland in the past two years.
> However, the truth about the import of agricultural crops from Russia is quite different – its actual scale is many times smaller than reported by Ukrainians. In 2023, 4,000 tons of grain were imported from Russia, and a year earlier – 6,000 tons. In the case of oilseed crops, Russian imports amounted in 2023. 4 thousand tons, and in 2022 – 2 thousand tons. Such figures were published by Eurostat, followed by EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski on his X portal account.
> By comparison, according to the NIK report, a total of 4.3 million tons of grain and oilseed crops, worth PLN 6.2 billion, were imported to Poland from Ukraine in the same period.
If we go by “truckload” (let’s assume 20t per truck for simplicity), we’re talking about ~800 trucks worth from russia. OVER. TWO. YEARS.
In comparison it’s 215 000 trucks worth from Ukraine.
Especially funny when video shows trucks which are not really designed for grain transport – which would make it horribly inefficient. Some great investigative journalism right there! /s
> Despite the war, the Poles are only strengthening cooperation with these countries.
The most brain damaged comment can be.
https://i.iplsc.com/wykres-przedstawiajacy-import-do-polski-z-ukrainy-produktow-/000H1U3EPM03FYIO-C122-F4.jpg – dynamics with Ukraine, rapid spike.
https://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/PM_ktkuTURBXy8wOWMyNjAyNi0wOTY1LTQzMGQtYTkzNC02NjlhOGI1NjRmZTIuanBlZ5GVAs0BfADCww – dynamics with russia, pretty much stagnant. Looks like long-term contracts
Russians behind all this.
This is simply disgusting behavior.