War refugees complain about abuse in Poland

Svitlana says she loves her daughter’s school in Poland.

“We did not even want to change schools when we can move to another area,” he said, “31-year-old Ukrainian mother. “He liked it a lot. There was no violence.”

Now he says the atmosphere in the school – and in general in Poland.

“Two weeks ago, he came home and said,” A boy said to me today, “Back to Ukraine.” “Svitlana was amazed.

He is one of the Ukrainians living in Poland who said that anti-Ukraine’s feelings increase in the BBC in recent months.

Many were explained in schools and in xenophobic materials and abusing public transport.

On Sunday, the presidential election campaign, which was polarized with the first round of voting, added to the tension.

A day after Svaita’s daughter’s return to Ukraine, the abuse was worse.

“Girls coming from the class above, he began to complain that he said Ukraine. Then ‘Rocket! Think!’ And laugh, “Svitlana says. “He came home.”

The Russian missile, the second day of the Svitlana, the number of citizens, including the hometown of Svitlana, including children, the killing of citizens, killing smencils, smencial daughter was traumatic.

Svitlana – he did not want to be defined as his true name but Receives fear of fear. He showed screen images of messages with school workers whom he complained about his daughter’s treatment.

He also said that in other places, the Ukrainians also said: “Here are many people, many people have come here and polish people say us.

According to government statistics, at least 2.5 million Ukrainians in Poland live in Poland, which accounted for about 7% of the total population of Poland.

In February 2022, when Ukraine began to be full-scale occupation, the poles had mercy. “It was amazing. Every day, people were called, they asked, ‘How can we help?’ He said,” How can we help?

“Some were organized by humanitarian caravans or brought refugees here. They gave their homes, food, everything in their hands – and hearts.”

Three years later, Natalya said that most of the polysies still support Ukraine. However, there are no increase in anti-Ukraine anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian antiors.

“Then he began to come out of real life,” he says. “Recently, we have more than such situations and more … Kenophobic (abuse), only because of the Ukrainian accent.”

Natalya says many Ukrainian refugees receive trauma. “This group is women and children’s groups, because of the war, often relatives are in the front, in captivity or dead … and this is a group of targets.”

Research shows that Poland is actually deteriorating Ukraine’s public opinion. According to the Mr. CBOS Center in March 2025, 50% of the poles are in favor of the adoption of Ukrainian refugees, 50 percent of the poles in four months. This figure was 81% two years ago.

We are registered as soon as a million Ukrainian, about a million Ukrainians arrived after the start of a full-scale occupation. 4.2% of Poland GDP is spent on Ukraine refugees.

Ukraine has become a hot key political issue in the important presidential election campaign of Poland.

Currently, the third polling station, Ukraine supports “Agreement” with anti-Ukrainian and Russian Vladimir Putin.

Conservative Karol Nawrokdi, who opposed the financial assistance to the EU and NATO to Ukraine and refugees in the second place, but supporting war efforts.

Most Ukrainian candidates, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition, Rafal Trzaskowski, even promised to decrease the social welfare of Ukrainians.

Trzaskowski refused to give up the Ukrainian credentials with the company to attract central votes in the elections, and political scientist Marcin Zaborowski.

“He meets the change of public relations. The initial enthusiasm to support the victims of war is not a completely comfortable issue for itself.”

Another remote candidate, Grzegorz Brown, in April, is being investigated by police to destroy the Ukrainian flag from a city salon building during an election rally. A total of 3% voting Brown is regularly contact with what Poland is called Ukrainian.

Last week, the Polish government warned the Russian “Fake information among the famous and technical information” and “an unprecedented attempt” to intervene in the Polish elections. Moscow denies all claims of election intervention.

Michal Marek, who manages a NGO watching the disinformation and propaganda in Poland, presents some examples of anti-Ukrainian material spread on social media.

“The main narrates are that Ukrainians are stealing money from the Polish budget, and Ukrainians want to respect us and kill us and kill us and kill us,” he said.

“This information starts on Russian-speaking telegram channels and see the same text and only the same text translated by Google Translate.

Mr. Marek directs this disinformation directly with the increase in anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian senses in Poland and said that a large number of polares are affected by propaganda.

“But we will only see after the election – a hundred percent of the poles want to vote for open Russian candidates.”