Yesterday, May 23rd at Majdan independency in downtown Kiev held protest against the influx of immigrants into Ukraine. The demonstrators carried banners with the slogans “Ukraine for Ukrainians”, “No Migration” and “White Ukraine” and any participants accused the authorities and business of trying to replace Ukrainian workers with cheaper labour from abroad. The protest was a reaction to the expanding frequency of information about the mass bringing foreigners to work in the Ukrainian economy, which faces a dramatic shortage of workers after more than 4 years of war.
Ukrainians went against mass immigration. In fresh weeks, Kiev media have increasingly reported the influx of South Asian workers, mainly India and Bangladesh. According to Ukrainian publications, any construction, logistics and industrial companies began recruiting foreigners due to staff shortages caused by military mobilization, emigration and demographic losses.
In the public space, it has besides been reported that entrepreneurs are considering bringing more workers besides from African countries, arguing this with the request to keep the economy and rebuild the country during the war.
The participants in the Kiev protest demanded a simplification in labour migration and argued that the state should primarily make the conditions for the return and improvement of millions of citizens who left Ukraine after Russia's invasion began. Demonstrators argued that beginning up the labour marketplace to migrants outside Europe could lead to serious social and cultural tensions in the future.
The picket besides featured voices relating to the situation of soldiers fighting on the front. Protesters argued that many Ukrainians have suffered tremendous casualties in defence of their own state, so they anticipate that after the war the precedence of the authorities will be to rebuild the country based on their own citizens and to encourage migrants to return alternatively than to open up the labour marketplace widely to foreigners. any of the participants in the protest argued that government migration policy could origin discontent among military families and front environments.
Similar protests were besides held in another cities of Ukraine, including Lviv, where demonstrators organized actions against the influx of commercial migrants. The dispute over migration shows increasing social tensions in Ukraine, which at the same time wages a devastating war, struggles with the demographic crisis and tries to keep the economy moving despite massive human losses.
OUR COMMENTS: The situation is at least unusual – on the 1 hand, Ukrainians leave Ukraine to claim to be "war refugees" in Poland and another EU countries, and to derive various benefits from it. On the another hand, Hindus and Banglians voluntarily come to the country, to which seemingly “ruskie bombs” are not terrible.
In all of this mess, it is simply a pity for Ukrainian soldiers who must fight and die for a country that is subject to fast depopulation and cultural substitution of the colored peoples of the "third world".
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