There can be no doubt that the war in Ukraine is aimed specifically at the civilian population.

Entire towns have already been devastated.

In the big cities, not only military targets are attacked, but also residential areas.

The bombardments and destruction are reminiscent of the war crimes in Syria and Chechnya.

The encirclement strategy is also an attack on civilian life.

The Kremlin's war aim, the subjugation of “Russian” Ukraine, is directed against what supposedly does not exist, the Ukrainian people.

In this respect, Putin's Great-Russian delusion is also reminiscent of the "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia.

Humanitarian corridors, like the one in Mariupol now, served not only for rescue, but also for “orderly” expulsion.

Only those who are “Russian” should stay or come back.

The consequence (and one must say: intentional) of this warfare is a stream of refugees who, after just a few days of war, are beyond imagination.

It is not a scenario drawn out of thin air that in the coming days and weeks not only hundreds of thousands of people, as initially assumed, but millions of people will be displaced.

Given these dimensions, it only makes sense that the EU should break new ground with the Mass Influx Directive – after all, that is what the directive was invented for.

It seems grotesque when a debate breaks out in Germany about whether the right passport decides who is allowed to come and who is not.

Even without a guideline, the following applies: Nobody can be turned away, the right to asylum applies anyway.

Even without a passport, there is a right to care and procedures.

In the end, however, the municipalities have to know who they are dealing with, where those in need of help have found shelter and what their entitlements are.

This requires fast, pragmatic and true-to-life distribution.

Everything else is irrelevant now.