The Polish government has warned of possible Russian infiltration of the farmers’ protests in the country. “According to our assessment, the anti-Ukrainian slogans raised during the recent peasant blockades are an attempt to take over the movement by outside groups possibly influenced by Russian intelligence,” the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw said on Wednesday.
It is with great concern that posters glorifying Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war he was waging appeared during the protests. The protests of Polish farmers are aimed against the EU’s agricultural policy, but also against the import of cheap agricultural products from Ukraine. On Tuesday, farmers blocked traffic intersections across the country and dumped grain from Ukrainian freight wagons at the Medyka border crossing.
The government’s warning refers to images from the Silesian town of Gorzyczki, published by several Polish media. The footage showed a tractor with a Soviet flag and a poster reading: “Putin, clean up Ukraine, Brussels and our rulers.”
The Public Prosecution Service is now investigating the farmer for ‘propaganda for fascism, communism or another authoritarian form of rule’ and incitement to hatred.
Poland is politically and militarily one of the closest allies of Ukraine, which is under attack by Russia. The EU and NATO country has received approximately one million refugees from there.
Source: Krone
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