Polish truculence isn’t dead, and it’s not that hard to see why. Lorry drivers will block three border crossings between Poland and Ukraine, starting next week, to draw attention to lost business as a result of relaxations in EU rules on third-country trucking introduced to help Ukraine last year. The Polish protest will exempt lorries heading into Ukraine with equipment for its army, but will limit other cross-border movements to one per hour. The Ukrainian infrastructure ministry tells Reuters 40,000 to 50,000 lorries cross the Polish border at eight main crossing points each month – roughly twice the pre-war number – and that 85 per cent of those vehicles are Ukrainian. The protest is an echo of those earlier in the year by Polish farmers dismayed by an influx of Ukrainian grain driving down the price of local crops. That fuelled broader weariness over the burden Poland is bearing in supporting Ukraine’s war effort, which the Law and Justice Party tried to harness in last month’s election. It didn’t work; a progressive coalition is poised to take power. But the weariness lingers.