The Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to impose sanctions on the import of food and agricultural products from Russia and Belarus. They emphasize that this trade brings Minsk and Moscow great profits.
"Our moral obligation is to stop trade that may directly or indirectly contribute to strengthening the ability of Russia and Belarus, which supports it, to continue the war with Ukraine. Especially since Russian imports may include grain stolen from the occupied territories of Ukraine. Russia continues its strategy of turning products into weapons, causing disruptions in the supply of Ukrainian agricultural products around the world. Therefore, the main priority of the EU should be the further support of Ukraine in resuming the export of its goods to the countries that need it the most," the resolution reads.
In addition, the deputies called on the European Union to protect sensitive sectors of the blocʼs agricultural market from "excessive imports from Ukraine."
Latvia became the first EU country to introduce restrictions on the use of agricultural products from Russia and Belarus. Meanwhile, Ukraine expresses its readiness to accept restrictions on its trade with the European Union in order to defuse a sharp political dispute with Poland. At the same time, Kyiv calls on the bloc to ban the import of Russian agricultural products, which still come through Belarus and the Baltic states.