Kyiv hopes to hold talks with Poland and the European Commission this week, as thousands of trucks queue at the border due to Polish blocks, in a protest that may affect country’s energy security, a Ukrainian trade representative said on Monday.
Trucks are backed up for miles as Polish truckers blocked roads to three border crossings in a protest, now in its second week, into what they see as government inaction over a loss of business to foreign competitors.
Truckers from Ukraine have been exempt from seeking permits to cross the Polish border since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and firms from Russia and Belarus have been setting up Polish entities, Polish truckers have said.
They want a return to a limited number of licenses for Ukrainian truckers, a demand Kyiv said it would not consider.
“This week we hope to have negotiations in a trilateral format,” Taras Kachka, the representative, said in televised comments on Monday.
Kyiv hopes for talks with Poland and EU on border blocks this week
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