A man on a crowded tram in Warsaw launched into a tirade of verbal abuse when he heard Oleksandra Iwaniuk speaking Ukrainian with a friend, and nobody in the carriage reacted.
Poland’s initial wave of support for Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in 2022 is now “exhausted”, with a growing number of acts of discrimination and hate speech directed towards Ukrainian citizens residing in Poland.
A month after the full-scale invasion, a survey by Warsaw-based pollster CBOS found that 94% of Poles wanted to accept Ukrainian refugees. A CBOS survey last month put that support at 48%, with half of Poles now believing that state benefits offered to Ukrainian arrivals are too generous.
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