Poland plans to ask the EU to impose sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products and foodstuffs, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a joint press conference in Vilnius with his Lithuanian counterpart Ingrida Szimonyte on March 4. T…
Warsaw’s opposition to Ukrainian agricultural products is related to the country’s pre-election struggle, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a press conference on March 4, attended by a Kyiv Independent reporter. Polish farmers began blocking trucks …
The Nordic Response 24 NATO exercises begin in northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway on March 4, for the first time with the participation of Finland as a NATO member, the Finnish public broadcaster YLE reported.The Norwegian-led drills, scheduled to la…
Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas traveled to the United States on March 3 ahead of a planned meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced. Security and defense concerns have intensified in th…
Lithuanian Customs announced that all persons with Russian-registered vehicles have until March 11 to re-register the cars in Lithuania or leave the country and the EU altogether. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia all banned entry to vehicles with Russian…
People chanted anti-war slogans at Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s funeral in Moscow on 1 March. Local media reported that participants of the rally are being detained.
Sources: BBC News Russian; OVD-info, a human rights media project about …
As Ukrainian agricultural products are being blockaded at the border, Poland continues to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Russian and Belarusian companies for seeds, oil and animal feed.
The first thing readers should realise is that the EU has …
Polish trucks ship Russian agricultural goods to Poland from Belarus, with the volume of these shipments increasing, according to an investigation by Ukrainska Pravda published on Feb. 29.The story comes amid widespread protests in Poland against agric…
Poland will consider banning food imports from Russia after it “analyzes” the results of Latvia’s decision to do so, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 29, citing Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.Latvia became the first EU member to ban imports of grain and o…
Poland imported US$2.6 billion worth of goods from Russia and US$450 million from Belarus in 2023. If considering only agricultural products, their imports from Russia to Poland reached US$117 million and exceeded the level of 2021, i.e. the level befo…