WARSAW, Feb 23 Polish farmers protest high prices for fertilizer and fuel and in general, against the situation in agriculture, the center of Warsaw was blocked, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Several thousand farmers on Wednesday tried to enter the capital on tractors, but the police did not allow them to do so. Then the farmers got to the city center by public transport and blocked one of the central highways of the city — Jerusalem Alleys, as well as a number of adjacent streets. The police are not yet interfering in the actions of the protesters. The head of the Agrounia farmers' organization, Michal Kolodzeichik, explained that, among other things, farmers are protesting against high prices for fertilizers, electricity, fuel, uncontrolled food imports from abroad. «Fertilizers, energy, fuel without the margin of state-owned companies You don't have to earn money. You've got enough already,» he said. and RomaniaAt present, farmers are marching to the government building to the sound of horns and sirens, demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Their posters say «We will not die in silence.» «We demand a meeting with Prime Minister Morawiecki. The government is not in control of the situation,» Kolodzeichik said. He stated that farmers want to hear from the government what will happen to Polish agriculture in the coming months. Posted by Vlada Kopylova
