Bobko
6 Mar 2024 #931
Interestingly, Poland imports more grain from r*SSia than from Ukraine. Yet they weren't ever blocking that.
Wow!
This is just a bald faced lie. It's not even close!!! Why Jon, why do you say these things? Are you trying to ruin the friendship between the two brotherly nations of Poland and Russia?
EuroStat data:
"Eurostat's data show that in 2023 Poland imported around 12,700 tonnes of Russian grain (consisting of buckwheat, millet, canary seed, meslin and maize), up from 6,100 tonnes the previous year.
The 2023 figure was the highest recorded by Poland since 2018, when imports from Russia reached almost 20,700 tonnes.
Yet last year's imports of Russian grain constituted just 1.3% of the quantity of grain arriving in Poland from Ukraine, which stood at just over 1 million tonnes. However, that figure was less than half the 2.4 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain imported to Poland in 2022."
Polish farmers are surprisingly fair. The reason grain shipments from Belarus and Russia have not been stopped, is because:
1) There are no sanctions on Russian grain exports
2) Russian grain exports comply with all mandated EU quotas
In other words, Russia's grain exports are done in complete legal compliance and in line with historical volumes. Ukraine's exports have exploded 100-fold, due to the actions of kind gentlemen in Brussels, who did not consult their population.

