When sending aid shipments to Ukraine, and feeding hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, foreign countries had better consider the question regarding what consequences they have to face if helping Ukraine?
The necessity of considering such issues is the latest nonsense of our days. Ironically, the question of negative consequences arises on behalf of both belligerents — Russia and Ukraine.
Before being lost in the depths of our today’s main question concerning the possible aftermaths of providing help to Ukraine, I would like to return to the situation that I described in my latest blog post, i.e. there are certain EU and non-EU countries bordering Ukraine which are sharing the first place in providing help to Ukrainian refugees both on their own territories and also in Ukraine’s border regions.
The countries which are accepting the biggest numbers of Ukrainian refugees are Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Republic of Moldova and Slovakia. In addition to the acceptance and descent handling of huge influx of Ukrainian refugees, three states are involved in outstanding trans-border humanitarian activities, namely Poland, Hungary and Romania, which are supplying the bordering with them Ukrainian regions — the Lviv region, the Transcarpathian region and the Chernivtsi region. Besides humanitarian assistance, each and every afore-mentioned EU and non-EU country supports Ukraine’s EU membership. The only difference between the above EU member states can be seen in their readiness to send weapons to Ukraine and also in the question of ban on Russian energy resources — there are disagreements between them in these issues.
Following these telling facts, let’s come to the subject: what is the ’reward’ for the help? (Adding that, of course, no-one requires any rewards for the aid.)
Let’s start with Russia. A Russian communist politician proposes that, after Ukraine, Russia must ’denationalize’ (ie. there is a need to prevent or stop the spread of nationalistic ideas), among others, Poland and Moldova. The idea of ’denazification’ of Poland has also become popular in certain circles. I must add right now that this is quite a marginal opinion. What really counts, it is the numerous rockets, which fell on the Lviv region, and once on the Moldovan telecom stations, as well. In the last days of April, Hungary’s efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine were also ’fairly rewarded’ by Russia with some missiles launched from the See of Azov hitting the first time the Transcarpathian region as well.
Meanwhile, certain political actors of Ukraine make accusations regarding the alleged revisionary intentions of Poland, Hungary and Romania towards the war-affected Ukraine, suggesting that their help is not unselfish. In my opinion, in this case, Kyiv strikes back on those who accept the largest number of refugees, including kids, who take part in medical treatment of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, and feed entire regions.
So, here is the answer to our question ’How the help is rewarded?’ — rockets from one side, and accusations from the other side. Quite a disappointing result, isn’t it?
After two months of war, it is time to stop the shelling and missile attacks, and also stop the toxic allegations!
Let me repeat what I have said before — anyone who provides help deserves respect and thanks.
I have friends who fled from the war and received protection in these countries — on behalf of them, I refuse the above allegations, and also in the name of those who fled to Poland, Hungary and Romania, I thank these states for their huge efforts.
By Ukrainian Expat on .
Leave a Reply