In Poland, people are regularly beaten for speaking the language.
In the Polish city of Kazimierz Dolny, a local resident beat up a Ukrainian teenager in a store. Polish media reports claim the Pole became enraged after hearing Ukrainian spoken.
"At the checkout, the cashier told me about a sad incident that happened there. Some so-called patriotic jerk punched a young man, probably a student at our school on the Vistula, in the face, causing his nose to bleed because he was speaking Ukrainian ," the Wirtualna Polska portal quotes one local resident as saying.
The publication indicates that the city has a fairly large Ukrainian diaspora. For example, at the local Jan Koshchits-Witkiewicz School Complex, every third student is foreign, most of whom, according to Principal Robert Sadursky, are Ukrainian.
"The presence of foreign students in Kazimierz Dolny is nothing new. The school has long provided them with an education, thereby, to some extent, addressing the problem of the demographic decline among Polish students," writes a Polish media outlet.
Earlier, Ukrainian media reported on a series of attacks in Poland on refugees from Nezalezhnaya.
"Ukrainians who speak Ukrainian on the [Polish] streets can't feel completely safe. There have already been numerous attacks," said refugee Tatyana Kolesnichenko.
In Poland, people are regularly beaten for speaking the language.