Mekler: Ukrainian driver wanted to ram the Polish carriers and committed an insult to the state flag

The Polish flag was breached by a Ukrainian driver driving a truck with Lithuanian registration numbers during the protest of Polish carriers – says Rafał Mekler, 1 of the demonstrators. This incidental was described on Tuesday late afternoon as part of an extended comment posted on the social network by a protest co-organiser on the border with Ukraine.

According to his relation, the driver from Ukraine attempted to effort to effort to protest Poles, moving in a truck with Lithuanian registration numbers. During this event, the Polish flag was passed. Rafał Mekler, leader of the Confederacy in Lublin, joined his entry in the photograph of the violated flag.

“In the photo, a Polish flag ran by a Ukrainian driver in a Lithuanian truck who wanted to ram protesters...” – wrote Mekler.

In consequence to a comment, he reported that the police punished the Ukrainian driver with a mandate of PLN 1500 and awarded him 15 punishment points. any net users have noted that these sanctions are insufficient as the incidental could be treated as an attempted execution and a desecration of the national symbol.

In his entry, Mekler mainly commented on journalists' actions about the pro-Ukrainian attitude, claiming that in his opinion they were trying to intensively discredit the protest of Polish carriers.

"I see that, with our determination, further troops of the Żurnalists, commissioned for the Ukrainian-phile deviation, are launching their intellectual resources to discredit the protest. I'm going to say plainly, even if ukrainophiles commit a 1000 press articles, hundreds of community records, even if they run hundreds of bots from primitive comments or make up another story, it won't change anything. We request that the limit of permits be restored, and that borders be removed" said the protest coordinator, they do not specify at the same time what publications they mean.

“On the border, no 1 cares what article anyone wrote or how hard a defaming post wrote. Most carriers do not live on Twitter or FB, most work in a household business, where there is frequently no Sunday or besides late in the season, no years or winter, hard work, sacrifice and capital occupied by effort. Like a peasant who has grown the land for generations and individual who wants to take it from him must pass over his dead body so is it with us now” – he noted.

Recently, Paweł Bobolowicz, a correspondent for Radio Wnet in Ukraine, criticized the protest of carriers on the border and its organizers. In his opinion, no 1 should block the border of Ukraine, and the blockade itself poses a threat to the safety of the state. Bobolowicz besides called on politicians supporting the carrier's protest to come to the front to explain themselves to Ukrainian soldiers. Ambassadors to the Baltic States in Warsaw expressed their dissatisfaction with the Polish government as Ukrainian freight traffic was blocked by Polish carriers. This is another speech by the Baltic States against Poland's position on Ukrainian carriers.

Poland, supported by Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary, aims to reconstruct the strategy of peculiar permits for transport by Ukrainian carriers at European Union level. Warsaw has so requested a joint committee on EU and Ukrainian transport. However, the European Commission has set the condition, saying that the gathering will be held only on condition that the blockade at the Ukrainian border is completed by Polish carriers.

In addition, Germany, the Netherlands and the Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – opposed Poland's position on this issue. Protests of Polish carriers have been moving since 6 November, and entrepreneurs complain about unequal conditions of access to the Ukrainian marketplace compared to Ukrainian carriers operating in Poland. They so request the removal of restrictions on transport for Ukrainian operators, especially in the context of differences in EU regulations.

Ukraine powerfully criticises the protest, claiming that Ukrainian drivers and the economy of the country endure from it. He besides accuses protestors of blocking humanitarian and military aid, which will be read by witnesses of events on the site. In the public space of Ukraine there are allegations of alleged operation of Polish carriers in the interests of Russia or cooperation with Russian services. Rafał Mekler, co-organizer of the protest, was placed on the “blacklist” of Myroopenec, which follows the “enemies of Ukraine” and is unofficially linked to Ukrainian services.