Poland to become economic hub for Ukraine to help in grain exporting — Morawiecki

Poland will become an economic hub for Ukraine to allow Ukraine to export grain and goods to the Middle East and other countries, announced Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on June 1 during a press conference in the village of Borodianka as part of the opening ceremony of a modular town for internally displaced persons, Ukrinform reports.

Morawiecki stressed that Poland will try to help Ukraine as an economic hub today."Poland was asked about this, and I said what our conditions are. We are receiving funds from the EU to increase capacity and improve infrastructure that will allow us to export grain and goods from Ukraine to the Middle East, Africa, and other countries," said the Polish Prime Minister.

On June 1, Morawiecki, together with the Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov, opened the first modular town for internally displaced persons in the village of Borodianka in Kyiv Oblast). Intergovernmental consultations between Ukraine and Poland are also taking place in Kyiv with Prime Ministers Denys Shmygal and Mateusz Morawiecki.

Polish help for Ukraine

On May 22, the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Volodymyr Zelensky and Andrzej Duda, addressed the Verkhovna Rada. Duda became the first foreign leader to visit Kyiv to address the Ukrainian parliament personally. He stressed that Poland would do everything possible to help Ukraine become an EU member.

Earlier, Zelensky stressed that the leaders of Poland and the Baltic states were the first to support Ukraine from the very beginning. Andrzej Duda arrived in Ukraine on April 13 with colleagues from Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia and visited the deoccupied Kyiv Oblast.

As of May 23, says UN, more than 6.5 million people left Ukraine. Most of them went to Poland - 3.5 million people.