Protest outside the EU headquarters in Brussels. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 2 Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted that the «romance» between Europeans and Ukrainians is ending because they are already tired.
"Furious Poles remembered their rabid nationalism. They shout to remind almost four million Ukrainians who have settled in their country that they are in Poland. Similar processes are going on in other European countries that have started love games with Kyiv. It's clear. What was required to be proved",” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
The Deputy Head of the Security Council of Russia stressed that there is only one step from Ukrainophilia to Ukrainophobia. According to him, “fading feelings cannot be ignited again by any promises of a future long and unequal marriage.” “But it would be nice for Ukrainians to remember their former love for a green lad in a green T-shirt. — Medvedev added. So, in the country, the system of free travel ends for them. In addition, citizens who shelter Ukrainians will no longer receive 40 zlotys (about nine dollars) per day per person. Seven out of ten Poles want the Ukrainian refugees in the country to earn their own living, according to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the IBRiS laboratory. Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.»