Ukraine is prepared to accept restrictions on its trade with the EU to defuse a bitter political dispute with Poland, but is also urging the bloc to ban Russian grain imports, the Ukrainian trade minister has said.
Taras Kachka told the Financial Times that Kyiv was in favour of new curbs on Ukrainian agricultural imports, although the EU also needed to ban Russian farm exports that are still reaching the bloc via Belarus and the Baltics.
“Maybe for a transitional period this kind of . . . managed approach to trade flows between Ukraine and the EU is something that we all need,” Kachka said. But he added: “For wheat, it is not Ukraine that is causing problems for Polish farmers, it is Russia.”