It is stupid. It is not good. There is a powerful wind blowing from the east.

At the end of February, an image from a farmer's protest in Poland spread across social media.

In it, a man can be seen driving a tractor adorned with a banner that says Putin, bring

order to Ukraine, Brussels and our rulers alongside a Soviet flag.

When the photograph was released, it quickly went viral.

It got out to the world before the protest ended.

Polish media report said police got involved by arresting and questioning the man behind it.

Named only as Piotragee.

And a day after the image made waves online,

the spokesperson for Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

released a statement warning of attempts to take over the country's agricultural

protest movement by groups possibly under the influence of Russian agents.

The words that came from the politicians regarding this case,

but also other cases that happened around the same time,

were very, very strong.

The Polish Prime Minister said that any cooperation in Poland with the Russian will be burned out with iron.

I'm Kaleen Devlin and this is the documentary from the BBC World Service.

We're traveling to Poland with BBC Trending to hear from Ukrainian truckers

and Polish farmers at the heart of the country's agricultural protests. We'll try and

trace the man behind the controversial banner.

Who is he and what does the reaction around this particular picture tell us about anxieties around Russian influence in Poland and beyond?

We have to be aware of one thing that Russia considers disinformation as the military tool.

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