Event 129

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "Poland",
    "Ukraine",
    "PL-UA"
  ],
  "border_violation_modes": [
    "Land"
  ],
  "category": "Border",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "continuous_since": "2024-02-17T12:00:00Z",
  "continuous_summary": "Farmer protests that began with Polish actors and now involve additional EU countries continue to blockade Ukraine border entry points, impeding road freight as form of ongoing agitation.",
  "countries": [
    "Poland",
    "Ukraine"
  ],
  "country": "Poland",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Farmers from Poland, along with participants from four more EU countries, are organizing to block a Ukraine border entry checkpoint to protest agricultural imports from Ukraine. Their actions target cross-border freight and are intended to pressure both the EU and Ukrainian authorities over trade concerns.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-02-18T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Screenshot of page headline stating the plan for transnational protest escalation.",
    "Photo depicting truck queues at a Polish-Ukrainian border crossing point.",
    "Cited statements from Polish border authorities about planned increase in protest action."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Protesters from four more EU countries to join Polish farmers in blocking Ukraine border entry checkpoint",
    "According to the head of the Polish border guard, the protests will increase from Monday, 19 February.",
    "The farmers are demanding the reintroduction of trade restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products.",
    "Polish farmers have already been blocking all the main checkpoints on the border with Ukraine since 9 February."
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Truck Blockade",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Screenshot of page headline stating the plan for transnational protest escalation.",
            "Photo depicting truck queues at a Polish-Ukrainian border crossing point.",
            "Cited statements from Polish border authorities about planned increase in protest action."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "fifth_column_countries": [
    "PL"
  ],
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Protesters from four more EU countries to join Polish farmers in blocking Ukraine border entry checkpoint",
  "is_continuous": true,
  "location_text": "Ukraine-Poland border checkpoint",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_129_1763916986_b158fa59.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "https://x.com/gatis_auzins/status/1759304741459247369  and https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/food-security-2023-black-sea-deal-isnt-only-game-town",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/17/protesters-from-four-more-eu-countries-to-join-polish-farmers-in-blocking-ukraine-border-entry-checkpoint/"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Protesters from five EU countries, including Poland, coordinate the blockade of a border checkpoint entry with Ukraine.",
  "url": "https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/17/protesters-from-four-more-eu-countries-to-join-polish-farmers-in-blocking-ukraine-border-entry-checkpoint/"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "PL",
  "Attack Type": "Truck Blockade",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "PL-UA",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "Truck Blockade (larger)",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "PL;UA",
  "Date": "18-Feb-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "https://x.com/gatis_auzins/status/1759304741459247369  and https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/food-security-2023-black-sea-deal-isnt-only-game-town ",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "\"I personally think that the main goal is to provoke a crisis, protests, so that farmers would demand that their governments reduce support for Ukraine. ? You can read the analysis on the topic - grain - Russian hybrid weapon. Which was compiled by these two professors.\"",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Border(s) Protesters from four more EU countries to join ??Polish farmers in blocking ??Ukraine border entry checkpoint",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/17/protesters-from-four-more-eu-countries-to-join-polish-farmers-in-blocking-ukraine-border-entry-checkpoint/ ",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}