Polish MP condemns Ukrainian mayor of ‘Banderite’ slur amid grain pouring incident at border
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Commenting on the words of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, who criticized Polish farmers who dumped Ukrainian grain, Polish Sejm Vice Speaker Piotr Zgorzelski said that Sadovyi "speaks the Banderite language," Polsatnews reported on Feb. 12.
"I suggest that Lviv Mayor Sadovyi drink a glass of water before saying anything because it often seems that the mayor speaks the Banderite language," he said.
Asked what he thought of the protesters pouring Ukrainian grain on the road, Zgorzelski said that "such actions are the result of their desperation."
"I will always be on the side of Polish farmers, unlike the previous government," he stated.
“I recognize that they can be driven to despair, they run farms like companies and they are told to limit crops and fertilizers.”
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi earlier claimed that Ukrainian grain was "dumped by Polish, but de facto pro-Russian provocateurs."
"The pseudo-blockade on the border continues," he wrote.
“Ukrainians are literally pouring blood on the fields that produce this grain. Harvesting wheat on a field that has seen war is like working as a sapper. Such actions are lowly and shameful.”
Polish protesters near the Dorohusk checkpoint on the border with Ukraine damaged Ukrainian trucks and poured grain out of them on Feb. 11. Relevant videos were posted online.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Warsaw, Vasyl Zvarych, called the actions a "shameful and offensive crime," saying that Ukrainian diplomats had appealed to the Polish police. Law enforcement officials have launched an investigation.
The Polish protesters have blocked a sixth checkpoint on the border with Ukraine as of Feb. 13.
Minister Czesław Siekierski said on Jan. 17 that the European Union is preparing a draft resolution extending duty-free trade with Ukraine until June 2025, rejecting Poland's proposal to reintroduce tariffs on some "sensitive products."
Poland is demanding the introduction of a "safeguard clause" for Ukrainian products, which provides for the possibility of applying regional safeguard measures if a market problem affects not the entire EU but one member state or region.
The Polish Independent Farmers' Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity said that Brussels' position was "unacceptable". On Feb. 2, the trade union categorically opposed imports of agricultural and food products from Ukraine.
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