European Union flags outside the EU headquarters in Brussels. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 24Asian and African citizens who fled Ukraine are being detained at EU borders and discriminated against in defiance of EU laws, according to the Independent newspaper, which conducted an investigation with a consortium of journalists Lighthouse Reports and others publications.
"The results of the investigation, which was conducted in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, Spiegel, Mediapart and Radio France, come after it emerged that dozens of African-American and Asian refugees who fled Ukraine suffered racial discrimination when they tried to cross the border last month& #34;, writes the newspaper.
It is noted that at least 52 citizens of «third countries» who left Ukraine after the start of the Russian special operation are in custody in Poland. The publication also notes the detention of a Nigerian citizen in Estonia. «Now he is threatened with deportation,» the newspaper points out. «This is despite the EU directive of March 4, which states that third-country nationals studying or working in Ukraine should be temporarily admitted to the EU on humanitarian grounds,» the Independent recalls. .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. 17InfographicRefugees from Ukraine: where forced migrants are sentInfographicView