Ukrainian Embassy writes to Polish Foreign Ministry over Ukrainian driver's death at border
The Embassy of Ukraine in Poland has communicated with the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the death of a Ukrainian driver in a queue at the border, which is blocked by protesting Polish hauliers.
Source: European Pravda, citing Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Zvarych
Details: "The Embassy has urgently addressed another official note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, demanding that the movement of freight vehicles be unblocked. The appropriate signals were also communicated to the Ministry of the Interior and the Polish administration," Zvarych wrote on Facebook.
The diplomat stressed that the Polish hauliers’ protest is putting people’s lives and health at risk and presents a significant danger to road safety, meaning that Poland could break up the gathering by law.
Quote: "We call on the Polish authorities to take decisive action to unblock the traffic and stop Ukrainian, Polish and foreign truck drivers from having to wait in multi-kilometre-long queues without proper conditions, being held hostage to the actions of the protest organisers."
Background:
- Earlier, it was reported that another Ukrainian driver had died in Poland near the Korczowa-Krakowiec checkpoint.
- Polish hauliers, who have been blocking three crossings on the Ukrainian border since 6 November, began to block another crossing point, at Medyka-Shehyni, on Thursday. The blockade could last until 3 January.
- On 22 November, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) appealed to the new Sejm and the Senate of Poland, calling on parliamentarians to urgently resolve the situation at the Ukrainian-Polish border.
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