Poland will include border crossings with Ukraine and sections of roads and railways in the list of critical infrastructure. This should provide "a 100% guarantee that military and humanitarian aid will reach the Ukrainian side without delay," TVN24 quoted Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as saying.
He called it "a matter of the next few hours". The Polish prime minister said that "our task - and we are effectively fulfilling it - is to fully open the border in terms of military transport and humanitarian aid, the roads of which run through Poland".
Not only trucks, but also some military supplies could not pass through the Polish border blockade.
"Therefore, in order to provide a 100% guarantee that military aid, equipment, ammunition and humanitarian aid will reach the Ukrainian side without any delays, we will include the checkpoints with Ukraine and the specified sections of roads and railways in the list of critical infrastructure. This is a matter of the next few hours," the Prime Minister said.
He explained that "this will also mean a different type of organisational regime at the checkpoints and on the access roads and tracks to the border with Ukraine".
"We will also draw practical consequences from this so that this movement takes place without delays and interruptions," he said.
Tusk said that he had an agreement with his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal to hold a meeting between the two governments in Warsaw on 28 March. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Polish officials to come to the Polish border to meet with their Ukrainian counterparts this weekend.
- The situation on the border with Poland reached a critical point after Poles dumped Ukrainian grain for the second time on 20 February - from wagons bound for Germany. Before that, they dumped it out of three trucks travelling to one of the Baltic countries.
- Poland's agriculture minister called the grain dumping an "act of desperation" and criticised the outrage of Ukrainian officials.
- Due to the Polish border blockade, Ukraine plans to build an additional route across the Danube to increase exports to pre-war levels.
- Polish Minister of Development and Technology Krzysztof Hetman, who is a member of the Polish Peasant Party, has allowed an embargo on all agricultural goods from Ukraine.
- The blockade of the border for trucks also affects the supply of military goods for the Ukrainian army.
- Polish Consul in Lviv Eliza Dzwonkiewicz considers the actions of Polish protesters shameful.
- In a special address yesterday, the President of Ukraine called on the Polish Prime Minister and members of his government to come to the border with Ukraine and meet with their Ukrainian counterparts to resolve the blockade. He also invited EU representatives.