Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Wednesday that he expects to announce a decision in the coming days and weeks to calm anger caused by Polish farmers over the free flow of Ukrainian grain into the market, which has caused prices to collapse, Reuters reported.

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“I have found a solution, I believe that in the coming days and weeks we will finally resolve all issues and that there will be no more questions, no more complications between such close partners and true friends as Poland and Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said. press in Warsaw, where he is on an official visit and where he met with the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, reports Agerpres.

On the day of Zelenskyi’s visit to Poland, the Minister of Agriculture of Poland resigned in protest against the European Commission’s decision to extend the tax exemption for Ukrainian grain imports until June 2024.

Groups of Polish farmers resorted to protest actions against the entry of “poor quality” Ukrainian grain into the country and the damage caused to them due to the collapse of prices.

In a letter sent at the end of March to the European Commission, the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary proposed several measures to limit market distortions caused by Ukrainian food imports, adding that if they did not produce results, taxes . and quotas should be reintroduced.

Large volumes of Ukrainian grain entered the market of EU countries both due to its opening, adopted by the EU bloc to help Ukraine in the war with Russia, and due to logistical blockages, due to which deliveries of Ukrainian grain, originally intended for third countries, remained on the market. markets of Central and Eastern European countries.