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.
with half of Poles now believing that state benefits offered to Ukrainian arrivals are too generous.
Ah, so they managed to make you guys believe any state funds not going to refugees could go to you instead too?
Spoiler alert: They won’t.