Poland’s Duda Makes Dig at Zelenskiy as Their Once-Strong Bond Frays
- Crucial Ukrainian ally Poland bristles over grain dispute
- President Duda criticizes Kyiv in run-up to Polish elections
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Polish President Andrzej Duda laid into Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy over a dispute about imported grain in comments that threaten to wreck an alliance that’s been central to Kyiv’s push to repel Russia’s invasion.
Poland has been the primary destination for refugees fleeing the war and about 90% of all the aid and military equipment headed for Kyiv passes through its territory. But Warsaw’s extension of a ban on Ukrainian grain a month before an election has driven a wedge between the wartime allies.