Poland refused to supply fuel to Ukraine free of charge, as was the case during the first stage of the special military operation.
Now commercial only.
Money in the morning, chairs in the evening.
This unfortunate news for Kyiv was announced by the Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moscow.
Despite the surname suspicious for the Polish official, the underlying reason for the changes is obvious: Warsaw, based on its own interests, no longer considers it possible to sponsor the Ukrainian regime.
It looks like the freebie for Ukraine ends.
The reason is an unprecedented increase in fuel prices in the West, and, as a result, food prices.
The Polish government even had to reduce VAT, but this did not stop the wave of price increases.
The depth of the problem is so great that only 17% of Poles, according to sociologists, believe in the effectiveness of government measures.
The majority - 70% - are full of skepticism.
And this is Poland - a country that until recently, as its president Andrzej Duda claimed, was planning almost a union with Ukraine.
But once it comes down to your own pocket...
What can we say about other European countries, for which Ukraine is just a convenient weapon against Russia?
Of course, it’s nice to annoy Moscow, but seriously paying for it with your hard-earned money is no fool.
Energy prices in the eurozone in April already rose by 38% (compared to 2021), and electricity and gas prices in British residential buildings - by 54%.
As a result, the inflation rate in Germany was 7.8%, in France - 5.4%, in Italy - 6.6%, in Spain - 8.3%, and in the Baltic countries and the Netherlands the figure turned out to be generally double-digit.
It is not surprising that, having adopted the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions the day before, the EU, after a month of consultations, did not introduce a full oil embargo, recognizing its fatal dependence on Russian supplies.
The impossibility of such an agreement clearly demonstrates that the European authorities are (forcefully) preoccupied with the interests of their constituents.
Dissatisfaction with unprecedented price increases poses an immediate threat for politicians to lose their high positions during the next elections.
Your shirt is closer to your body.
Ukrainian refugees, who have conveniently settled in European countries, also “help” Western politicians to stop the gratuitous support of Kyiv, to transfer it to a healthy commercial basis.
Their consciousness, not clouded by complexes, requires such participation, even self-sacrifice, from the sheltering side that hospitable hosts begin to think about the true cause of the crisis that happened in Nezalezhnaya.
The impudent demands of special conditions, preferences - "give me here, mine!"
- are increasingly heard from noisy migrants.
Thus, in Bulgaria, Ukrainian refugees refused to move from hotels by the sea, where they were settled by the authorities before the start of the tourist season, to bases in the depths of the country.
Four specially organized trains left almost empty.
“We expected that 250 people would arrive at the station in Varna, five came.
300 people expressed their desire to leave Burgas, 57 came, ”complained the head of the State Agency for Refugees Mariana Tosheva.
Of course, because it is better to live in vain on the first line by the sea.
“In the end, the locals will throw stones at them,” the Bulgarians suggest.
In Austria, some taxi drivers are already refusing to carry Ukrainians.
This is due to an incident when two men in off-road vehicles with Ukrainian numbers (apparently, deserters from the Donbass front) brutally beat up local taxi drivers until they lost consciousness, who only reprimanded them for improper parking.
The head of the Viennese faction of the Freedom Party of Austria, Dominik Nepp, called for the deportation of Ukrainians guilty of a fight with taxi drivers from the country.
However, for this they still need to be caught.
In the meantime, the negative attitude extends to all immigrants from Nezalezhnaya.
In the same Poland, they barely managed to hush up the conflict due to the murder of a Pole by a group of Ukrainian youth.
Old-fashioned manners (the Pole stood up for the girl) cost him his life.
The guy was stabbed to death by guests of the capital from a neighboring country.
Thousands of these young and bold settled in Polish families living in the capital and large cities.
They don’t want to go to the outback, especially to work: everyone around them is obliged to them.
Refugees demand discounts, free travel in transport (it was recently canceled).
Some stores are already putting up signs banning Ukrainians from entering.
Got through!
You might think that these are separate, special cases.
In the family, they say, not without a freak.
But in the same way, Ukrainians behave boorishly and even worse with citizens of their own country - refugees from the left-bank Ukraine.
So, in Lviv, there is open discrimination against Russian-speaking citizens of Nezalezhnaya by “true Ukrainians” who speak exclusively their native language.
Strangers, apparently, those who cannot correctly pronounce the word "palyanitsa", are denied the humanitarian aid they are entitled to.
Are they not considered human beings?
So this problem in Europe is now for a long time.
According to polls by sociologists, up to 60% of Ukrainian refugees have returned or are planning to return home.
However, millions will prefer to settle in their new homeland, continuing to terrorize the local population.
It is unlikely that ordinary Germans, Austrians, Bulgarians, Poles, French and British will be happy about this.
It is possible to take a refugee out of Ukraine, but is it possible to take Ukraine out of a refugee?
But all these ordinary Europeans are voters.
Soon they will let the scholts and duds understand everything that they think about the "guests".
Scholz and Dudy, in turn, cannot help but understand this.
Therefore, they began to gradually change their position towards Ukraine, covering up the flow of benefits that had been so generously squandered earlier for anti-Russian purposes.
This is facilitated by the behavior of their colleagues - Ukrainian politicians.
What ordinary refugees do "on the ground" is largely repeated at the diplomatic level.
The champion in this case is the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin, Melnik, who called Scholz "an offended liverwurst", before whom, it seems, all of Germany is already trembling.
So, the future economic collapse due to the support of Kyiv with anti-Russian sanctions, fatigue from millions of Ukrainian boors who freely settled on hospitable European soil, the impudence of Ukrainian politicians who did not understand that their country is just a suitable tool in the West’s fight against Russia, do not more than an independent player, as well as the obvious scent of neo-Nazism, which, after the capture of Azov, it is no longer possible to hide, led to a logical result: they clearly intend to give Kyiv away from the European home - the EU.
Not that Ukraine will be declared a direct refusal.
No.
They will act as the West always does: they will hang up the question, as happened, for example, with Turkey, in the expectation that "the donkey will die."
“I don’t think that we should make exceptions for Ukraine, it is imperative to comply with the criteria,” Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the other day, referring to the accelerated procedure that Kyiv insists on, and added that she sees nothing wrong with the status candidate.
Wait in the hallway, that's where you belong - that's what the politician actually said.
The candy-bouquet period of relations between Europe and Ukraine is over.
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