MOSCOW, September 23. The conflict between Poland and Ukraine over grain and arms supplies has infuriated European officials because it is in their eyes to serve Russia's interests, said CNN journalist Luke McGee.
“»Ukrainian Europe faced an unexpected situation this week In a twist of fate, Poland — until now Kiev's most loyal ally on the continent — said it would stop sending weapons to its neighbor,» the article says.
According to the publication, the leaders of the European Union are extremely dissatisfied with the friction that has arisen between Kiev and Warsaw, since Warsaw’s “weapon hysteria” will give other countries that supplied armored vehicles and shells to Ukraine a reason to abandon such a policy.
“Public disagreements in the West make it easy to say that the West is divided, and a divided West is, of course, good for the Kremlin,” the journalist concludes.
Recently, Polish-Ukrainian relations have become significantly more complicated due to the embargo imposed by Warsaw on grain supplies from Ukraine.
At the beginning of the week, Vladimir Zelensky, speaking at the UN General Assembly, said that some of Kiev’s friends in Europe refused to buy Ukrainian grain , thus “playing along” with Russia. After this, Ukrainian Ambassador Vasily Zvarych was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry, where a strong protest was expressed to him.
In turn, the country's President Andrzej Duda said that Ukraine behaves like a drowning man who clings to everything and threatens to drown those who are trying to help him .
On September 15, the European Commission decided not to extend restrictions on the import of four types of Ukrainian agricultural products into several EU border countries, but obliged the Kiev authorities to introduce export control measures. After this, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland announced the extension of this ban unilaterally. Ukraine, for its part, filed a complaint with the WTO. In response, Bratislava, Budapest and Warsaw announced that they would boycott meetings of the coordination platform on Ukrainian grain in Brussels.