Thousands of angry farmers demonstrated in Warsaw against European Union regulations and cheap Ukraine imports, with police reporting that two officers had been injured and a dozen protesters arrested.
Polish farmers have been blocking border crossings with Ukraine since last month to protest against what they say is unfair competition from ipoprt goods entering from Ukraine.
Many of Ukraine’s major export routes through the Black Sea have been blocked and its farmland rendered unusable by warfare.
Trying to help Kyiv economically, the EU in 2022 scrapped tariffs on Ukrainian goods transiting the 27-nation bloc by road.