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Poland’s grain row with Ukraine escalates

Marketplace All-in-One

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4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: Poland has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies since Russia’s full scale invasion last year — welcoming more than a million refugees and helping to supply a stream of weapons. But now it says it will no longer supply its neighbour with arms in a row over grain imports. Plus, Tesla is eyeing expansion in India but how ready is the country’s charging infrastructure for a big electric vehicle push?

 

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Poland won't be arming Ukraine anymore amid a row over grain imports.

0:36.7

Hello, you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service.

0:41.2

I'm Leana Bern.

0:42.2

Thanks so much for tuning in.

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Poland has been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia's full-scale invasion

0:48.6

last year, welcoming more than a million refugees and helping to supply a stream of weapons.

0:53.8

But now the Polish government has announced it will no longer provide its neighbor with

0:57.9

arms.

0:58.9

And the trigger for that was the decision by Poland to maintain a ban on Ukrainian grain imports

1:04.4

to protect its own farmers.

1:06.5

Rudatsky Kursky is former Polish foreign and defense minister and current member of

1:11.7

the European Parliament.

1:13.2

He says the Poland's decision to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine is a mistake.

1:18.4

We have a nasty general election next month, but Ukraine supporting Ukraine is one of the

1:23.4

few issues on which we have national consensus.

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