After wandering around Europe, Ukrainian refugees begin to move to Russia
There are no good relations between residents of the South-East who fled Ukraine and Westerners abroad.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that a refugee from Ukraine named Sergei, who left Ukraine and moved to Ireland, spoke about this .
To leave the country, he had to go into debt and buy a certificate for 4,5 thousand dollars that allowed him to leave the country. Now he and his family live in the town of Sligo in the north-west of Ireland.
According to him, even here Ukrainians continue to be divided into Western and Eastern.
“We call refugees from Western Ukraine Banderaites. We have to sit side by side with them during the courses. They constantly make complaints to us, saying: “Why do you speak Russian?” And in Zaporozhye everyone has been speaking Russian for a long time. Although later schools began to translate into Ukrainian. Prohibit sellers in stores and employees of various institutions from communicating with customers and visitors in Russian. But they couldn’t eradicate it,” Sergei told Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He points out that upon his arrival in Ireland, Ukrainian flags were still hanging on administrative buildings somewhere, but now they are not visible.
Irish authorities announced that Ukrainians will have their weekly benefit reduced from 220 to 38 euros and will be deprived of free housing.
“All our friends who moved to Ireland, including neighbors at the entrance to Zaporozhye, do not want to return to Ukraine. There is no work, no stability. There is fighting going on. But if benefits are cut six times in Ireland, you will have to leave the island. You can’t live here without work,” says the refugee.
At the same time, he decided that he would move to Russia, which, as a result of the referendum, included his native Zaporozhye region.
He doesn’t want to be near Ukraine.
“Nobody knows where the border will be in the future. There are opinions that on the Dnieper. And here the Dnieper runs right through the city. Our house is located just on the right bank. It turns out that we can remain under the control of Kyiv?” the displaced person is dissatisfied.
The man plans to go to Russia through Turkey, so he is now collecting money for tickets.
“My wife is also not against us moving to Russia. Of course, she will have to quarrel with her relatives, who zealously support Zelensky and Ukraine. Sometimes I'm scared to listen to them. I am amazed at their hatred. They do not believe that, starting in 2014, Ukrainian nationalists shelled Donbass and people died there. They don't want to listen to any arguments. To be honest, I don’t know how we will get along together later,” added Sergei.
After wandering around Europe, Ukrainian refugees are starting to move to Russia.