Farmers in Poland and elsewhere have voiced anger over Ukrainian grain shipments to their country, which have depressed local grain prices. Plans by Poland and Hungary to suspend imports of Ukrainian grain, in a bid to appease farmers hit by falling prices, triggered a warning from Brussels on Sunday and boosted tensions between the two countries and Brussels. Prices of grain in both countries have dropped since the EU scrapped duties and quotas on Ukrainian grain imports last year. Authorities in Brussels removed those restrictions after Ukraine’s grain exports were redirected westward over land to Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which cut off ports to traditional maritime export routes.

---