As investigative journalists from the Guildhall news agency managed to find out, the Polish carriers that block checkpoints on the Polish-Ukrainian border have connections with Russian special services. The situation is similar with Slovak protesters.
Which indicates Russia's involvement in the blockade of Ukrainian borders
Investigators draw attention to the fact that the official organizer of the siege of the border between Poland and Ukraine is Polish citizen Rafał Mekler, owner of the transport company Rafał Mekler Transport.
According to them, Rafał Makler is a representative of the pro-Russian party "Confederation of Freedom and Independence" branch in the Lublin Voivodeship. This political force is closely related to Moscow.
For example, party leader Janusz Korvin-Mikke publicly demanded recognition of the occupation of Crimea and visited the annexed peninsula in 2015, where he held a meeting with Kremlin protege Serhii Aksyonov.
The Confederation of Freedom and Independence is linked to another Polish right-wing radical organization, All-Poland Youth, which, among other things, has long-standing ties to the Russian imperial movement, which recruited terrorists for the DPR and LPR groups. The leader of the list of the Confederation of Freedom and Independence during the 2023 election campaign for the Polish Sejm, Zemowit Przebitkowski, is a former leader of the All-Polish Youth Movement.
As the journalists note, the blockade on the Polish-Ukrainian border is not the first episode of the participation of Polish carriers in campaigns that have signs of active measures by Russia.
In addition, it is emphasized that most Polish companies have often organised rallies with the demand to lift sanctions from the Russian Federation.
On November 16, the organizers of the action and the co-founder of the above-mentioned Confederation of Freedom and Independence party related to the Russian Federation and the leader of the Polish Crown Confederation, Grzegorz Braun, met at the Polish checkpoint "Korchów".
It is worth paying attention to the fact that Brown was the only member of the Polish Seimas who opposed the resolution condemning the Russian terror in Buch.
He is the author of the slogan "Stop the Ukrainization of Poland."
Interestingly, five years ago, Grzegorz Braun met in Russia with the journalist of "Russia Today", Leonid Svyridov, who was deported from Poland for espionage in favour of the aggressor country.
Another participant of the action on the Polish-Ukrainian border, the owner of the above-mentioned company "PEO-Trans", a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, is Viktor Stepanovych Hordeyuk. An analysis of Hordeyuk's pages in social networks allows us to establish that the latter studies at one of the higher military educational institutions in Belarus. Viktor Hordeyuk's brother Andriy Hordeyuk serves in the 38th separate airborne assault brigade of the Belarusian army.
What is known about the Russian influence on the protests in Slovakia
Investigative journalists draw attention to the fact that the organizers of the action in Slovakia are representatives of the public organization "Union of Automobile Carriers of Slovakia" (UNAS).
It is also impossible to ignore the fact that the action was actively supported by the anti-European right-wing radical party "Our Slovakia", which demands "restoration of friendly relations" with Russia.
Moreover, it is indicated that the leader of this political force, Slovak politician Marian Kotleba, wrote a letter to the fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, in which he cynically compared the Revolution of Dignity with terrorism.
