Trucks back up for 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) on the approach to the Dorohusk-Jagodin border crossing. Their Ukrainian drivers are stuck in Poland, unable to return home, because Polish transport companies and truckers are blocking border crossings to Ukraine as part of a protest against cheap competition from their southeastern neighbor.
I've already been waiting two weeks in fact, it's almost three now. Hardly any water, hardly any food, just a few primitive toilets. We're political hostages here.
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the EU set up so-called "solidarity corridors" to facilitate the transportation of goods between EU member states and Ukraine. It was primarily about getting humanitarian and military aid into Ukraine, but also getting Ukrainian grain out. Exports of Ukrainian grain had virtually ground to a halt because of Russia's blockade of Ukraine's ports.
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