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Politico (20 March 2024)

Jamie Dettmer

Two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv's Western allies are still trying to have it both ways even as Moscow settles in for a long, attritional war, Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told POLITICO Wednesday.

“On the one hand, you’re an ally and you must help Ukraine in the war,” Podolyak said in an interview in the country’s capital. “On the other, you are trying to protect your market in a protectionist way.”

Relations between Kyiv and its European allies have been strained by weeks of protests by farmers in Poland and elsewhere against agricultural imports from Ukraine they worry will lower the prices of their products.

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