Polish MFA summoned Ukrainian ambassador over Zelenskiy's U.N. speech message

"(Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński) conveyed the Polish side's strong protest against the statements made by President V. Zelenskiy at the UN General Assembly yesterday, alleging that some EU countries feigned solidarity while indirectly supporting Russia," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

It said Jabłoński also told Ambassador Vasyl Zvarych that "putting pressure on Poland in multilateral forums or sending complaints to international tribunals are not appropriate methods of resolving disputes between our countries".

In his address given on Tuesday before the UN General Assembly, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that "it is alarming to see how some in Europe play out solidarity in a political theatre – making thriller from the grain".

"They may seem to play their own role but in fact they are helping set the stage to a Moscow actor," the Ukrainian president added.

Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, citing a need to protect domestic markets, announced their own curbs on Ukrainian grain imports on Friday after the European Commission decided not to extend its ban on such imports into five eastern European Union member states.

A World Trade Organization spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that Ukraine had taken the first step in a trade dispute by filing a complaint to the global trade body.

He did not name the countries although Kyiv has previously said the complaint targeted Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.

Also on Tuesday, Ukraine said it would impose retaliatory import curbs on certain goods from Poland and Hungary if they did not lift their unilateral bans.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki replied that Warsaw could ban imports of more Ukrainian food products if Kyiv escalated the dispute.