Ukrainian activists in Poland blocked trucks headed for Belarus, demanding the EU stop all trade with Russia. A line of trucks stretched out for at least 10 kilometres near the border on Saturday
– The line of trucks waiting to enter Belarus from Poland at the Kukuryki-Kozlowiczy border crossing stretches out for at least 10 kilometres on a country road in Poland’s east.
“This is one of the main points where trucks from Europe, Russia and Belarus cross the border in order to continue trading,” Svitlana Maistruk, 33, told TRT World. “All this money is going to finance war in Ukraine.” The UK, the EU and the US have imposed progressively harsh sanctions on Russia since its offensive on Ukraine began on February 24, with at leastconfirmed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , including 59 children.
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the EU – which gets about 40 percent of its gas from Russia – to impose a blanket ban on trade. Polish member of the European Parliament Madgalena Adamowicz is among those to havethat Russia is using international road transport to evade sanctions currently in place.
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