Since then, the Ukrainian people have been running away from their country to others to seek safety and protection. Poland is one the countries who hosts the most Ukrainian refugees since it’s at the Ukrainian boarder like Moldova, Romania, or Hungary. These countries are not used to host refugees and are not enough equipped and lack institutions to deal with refugees. Moreover, they lead a strict and closed migration policy which doesn’t help. For example, in Poland, the current deputy prime minister and leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, stated that refugees “will not abide by the Polish law" Or the Polish President Andrzej Duda feared they will carry a risk of “possible epidemics.” In 2015, when millions of Middle East and African refugees flew to the European Union, Poland refused to take part in the refugee relocation process. Accepting even several thousand refugees from Syria and Iraq would have neither affected the ethnic composition of Poland’s population of almost 38 million people nor created a noticeable drag on the state budget. It would have, however, been an opportunity to modernize scarce and obsolete migration-related units of the administration and create much-needed new ones.
Over the 6.6 million of Ukrainian refugees half of them went to Poland while Polish government has been refusing all the other refugees. Most Ukrainians in Poland are moving on to the other countries since there is no boarder control with Schengen areas members. Moreover, the EU has granted to the Ukrainians the right to stay and work throughout its 27 members nations for up to three years but why to them and not the others? The EU members have proved that they are able to help refugees if they want to. Journalists, politicians have shown their support to Ukrainians……. like the journalist Daniel Hannan, in Telegraph “They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations.” Or the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer who stated that “of course we will take in refugees, if necessary”. Nehammer was known as a hardliner against resettling Afghan refugees in Austria. “It’s different in Ukraine than in countries like Afghanistan,” he told Austrian TV. “We’re talking about neighborhood help.”
These statements reflect how the Western world is focus only on himself, normalizing wars and tragedy happening far from the Occident like in Africa, Middle East or South America. Ukrainians need our help since the 24 of February 2022 while some people have needed our help for 10 years... Let’s lend a hand to every refugee EQUALLY no matter where they are from and what they lived through.