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...The border blockade had hobbled Tusk’s early efforts to improve relations with Ukraine after taking office last month....
...Polish truck drivers started their blockade on November 6 in protest at cheaper competition from Ukrainian hauliers....
...Zelenskyy said he was ready to travel to the Polish border by Saturday to negotiate with Tusk over an end to a farming blockade that has undermined Ukraine’s war effort against Russia....
...Taiwan Center for Security Studies think-tank found that energy reserves, the electricity grid, storage facilities and crisis planning fell far short of securing even basic power supplies in case of a blockade...
...Read more about the Russian blockade here....
...Ukraine has further tested Russia’s blockade of its Black Sea coast, as the first of two ships sent to collect grain set sail on Tuesday....
...Ukraine’s association of road cargo truckers warned €400mn in revenue has been lost because of the blockade....
...Ukraine said on Friday that two commercial vessels carrying metallurgical products had departed its Black Sea ports, marking the first attempt at non-food maritime shipments since Russia imposed a naval blockade...
...Pierrick Horel, the leader of the Young Farmers union, said farmers were preparing a larger blockade of the capital....
...Increasingly fearful residents of Timbuktu are enduring acute shortages amid a weeks-long blockade of the historic Malian city by Islamist jihadis....
...The use of blockade as such, the weapon of blockade is still legal today....
...EU diplomats maintained it was Russia’s attempted blockade of the Black Sea and attacks on Ukrainian grain silos that throttled supplies....
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...Two commercial ships have docked at a Ukrainian port as Kyiv steps up efforts to unilaterally break Russia’s blockade of its Black Sea coast....
...Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal separately called on Monday the Polish border blockade “senseless”, even if had not stopped humanitarian aid and weapons from entering Ukraine....
...A cargo ship left a Ukrainian port near Odesa on Tuesday carrying 3,000 tonnes of wheat bound for international markets, despite Russia’s ongoing blockade in the Black Sea....
...Since taking office, Tusk has also shied away from ordering Polish police and border guards to break up the blockade....
...Darichuk said the blockade showed relations could change “much too quickly” between neighbours....
...Tusk’s visit comes days after his government negotiated a suspension of a border blockade by Polish truckers and farmers.https://twitter.com/PremierRP/status/1749326741301064071...
...The enclave’s de facto leader Arayik Harutyunyan said on a recent call with reporters that the blockade had resulted in food shortages, as 90 per cent of foodstuffs were normally imported from Armenia....
...Kyiv has in recent months unilaterally broken the blockade with shipments of grain, steel and other products....
...The Alabama Republican capitulated after mounting pressure from members of his own party and senate Democrats, who warned they would soon schedule a vote to overcome his blockade....
...French farmers put their blockades on hold a few weeks ago after a series of government measures, but tension has risen again in recent days....
...Dividing Gaza’s future into near, medium and long-term phases, it makes clear that Israel will continue its long-running blockade of the enclave and intends to remain involved in civilian life there, including...
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