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Two-day negotiations between representatives of the Ukrainian government and Polish colleagues regarding the ban on the import of Ukrainian agricultural and food products into Poland, as well as their transit, introduced for the period from April 15 to June 30, ended in Warsaw. The result of the negotiations was an agreement on the resumption of transit through the territory of Poland from April 21.

The Union of the Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine is disappointed with the outcome of the negotiations. It does not change the situation with the ban on milk exports and thus puts the domestic dairy industry under attack.

Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery, Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, met with Hulusi Akar, Minister of National Defence of Turkey.

Oleksandr Kubrakov commented: "We have completed a meeting with Hulusi Akar, Minister of National Defence of Turkey. The main issue on the agenda is unblocking and ensuring the effective functioning of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. We agreed to resume registration and inspection of ships arriving to load Ukrainian grain.

The UN-backed grain corridor is the main exit route for Ukrainian agricultural exports, so the decision by Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria to block them too will cause considerable damage to Ukrainian farmers and a sector hard hit by the war.

Kyiv's hope is that a negotiated solution will be found on a multilateral scale between Ukraine, the national governments involved and the European Commission (EC), whose decision to lift tariffs on its products triggered a reaction from the four eastern countries.

As expected, Russia took advantage of the situation when three European countries banned the import of Ukrainian products, and Poland, moreover, banned transit.

As a result of these actions, the export of Ukrainian agricultural products is again very limited.