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France’s Pot Shot at Ukrainian Chicken Says a Lot
EU support for Kyiv is tied to a weary home front. Leaders need to start coming clean.
Farmers demonstrate on the Pont Mirabeau.
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As the third year of the grueling war in Ukraine begins, a highly sensitive fight over food in Europe shows the growing problem of weariness among Kyiv’s allies — and calls for an urgent strategy to address it.
In Poland, where Donald Tusk is trying to steer a divided country closer to the West, farmers protesting over grain shipments from Ukraine have blocked some 2,500 trucks at the border. Tusk has asked the European Commission for help in defusing the fight, which pits politically powerful farmers against an ally at war.