Relations between Ukraine and strong ally Poland are growing strained, officials acknowledged Wednesday, with Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pavel Yablonsky telling radio RMF they “have not been the best” recently and “there is no agreement” on many issues.
Poland has accepted millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war and provided military and humanitarian aid. But Poland also is one of multiple European countries concerned that Ukraine, struggling to ship its grain to Africa and Asia under a Russian blockade, is sending it to European ports, flooding markets and hurting local farmers.
Polish foreign policy adviser Marcin Przydach touched off a firestorm this week when he said Ukraine “should start to appreciate the role that Poland has played for Ukraine over the past months and years.”
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Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Bartosz Cichocki was then summoned to the foreign ministry in Kyiv Tuesday, where he was told claims that Ukraine is ungrateful were “untrue and unacceptable,” the Ukraine foreign ministry said.
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