Poland has escalated its rhetoric against Ukraine beyond a trade dispute over grain, with president Andrzej Duda comparing the war-torn country to a drowning person clinging to their rescuer and endangering their life.
“Ukraine is behaving like a drowning person clinging to anything available,” Duda told Polish journalists in New York?on Tuesday. “A drowning person is extremely dangerous, capable of pulling you down to the depths?.?.?. simply drown the rescuer.”
The president’s unflattering remarks came after Poland led a coalition of central and eastern European countries that extended unilateral curbs on imports of Ukrainian foodstuffs despite the EU agreeing to lift them on Friday.