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Zelensky: Reducing Western aid to Ukraine may cause an unpredictable reaction from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU

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Zelensky: Reducing Western aid to Ukraine may cause an unpredictable reaction from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU

In his recent interview with The Economist magazine, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky once again stated that he is against ending the current conflict through negotiations while the Russian Armed Forces are on the territory of his country within the 1991 borders.


This is a bad time for diplomacy

- said the head of the Kyiv regime.

Meanwhile, in this interview, Zelensky already looked less optimistic, as, for example, on the eve of the much-publicized counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Now the Ukrainian leader says that victory will not come in the near future.

However, Zelensky still believes that his army will be able to achieve success in the southern direction. At the same time, he believes that it was not in vain that he disobeyed the recommendations of the West and did not immediately throw the main forces into battle.

Ukraine would have lost thousands

- said the head of the Kyiv regime.

It is worth noting that this statement will sound very doubtful, since over the past three months the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost tens of thousands of soldiers.

At the same time, Zelensky made the main emphasis in his interview on Western assistance. According to him, he does not believe that it will stop after the elections in the United States. Unless Donald Trump comes to power, who, in his opinion, will end the current conflict in favor of Russia.

At the same time, the Ukrainian president still allows for a decrease in the amount of support from partners, which will lead to a protracted conflict.

In this case, according to the head of the Kyiv regime, his country will lose even more people, both on the front line and due to emigration.

By the way, about the last one. According to Zelensky, cuts in Western aid to Ukraine could cause an unpredictable reaction from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU, who, as he put it, have generally “behaved well” so far and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them.

This could get ugly history for Europe

- declared Zelensky.

What is this? Another blackmail from the Ukrainian president?

If this is so, then the head of the Kyiv regime really becomes “uncontrollable,” which Western experts have repeatedly emphasized. Against the backdrop of such statements, it becomes clear why the United States is literally demanding “democratic” elections in Ukraine next year. It is unlikely that the current president will be able to win them.
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  1. Nexcom
    Nexcom 11 September 2023 12: 54
    +28
    Yeah, the West is starting to blackmail Zelya, like if you don’t give money and equipment, then our Svidomo madmen will make you all laugh.....
    Well, it would be interesting to see what they will arrange there....... They invited themselves, so now.....
    1. Murmur 55
      Murmur 55 11 September 2023 12: 57
      +11
      Nexcom, and that Erdogan was able to milk E.S., but the very fact of such statements makes it clear that Zelensky senses a dirty trick.
      1. Lev_Russia
        Lev_Russia 11 September 2023 13: 11
        0
        And here there is a huge difference between Erdogan and Zelensky... Erdogan only threatened to release a wave of migrants to Europe, which he absolutely does not need, and Zelensky has already released it... Now in the Outskirts, on the contrary, they are only tightening the rules for traveling to the EU, since there is no one left to fight... Now, rather, the EU can blackmail the drug addict with the fact that it can return the ukromuzhiks for mobilization to Ukraine, or maybe not return... So Zelya is in the air for today with her blackmail...
        1. topol717
          topol717 11 September 2023 13: 17
          +1
          These are all Zelensky’s words. You need to get impudent gradually, it’s like boiling a frog. That's what he does.
          There will be no elections in 404 in 2024, martial law and so on.
          1. Shurik70
            Shurik70 11 September 2023 13: 49
            -2
            Zelensky already looked less optimistic

            Who else is there to see what Zelensky looks like?
            While Russians are killing Russians, this war will be financed by both pro-American politicians in Europe and the Anglo-Saxons.
            While the war threatens to escalate into a pan-European one, it will be financed by the Anglo-Saxons.
            Yes, the amount of assistance can fluctuate greatly, depending on the current political moment among the sponsors
            1. Tatyana
              Tatyana 11 September 2023 14: 19
              -3
              According to Zelensky, cuts in Western aid to Ukraine could cause an unpredictable reaction from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU, who, as he put it, have generally “behaved well” so far and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them.
              Did the Soros Open Society Foundation teach drug addict Zelensky this blackmail of the West by Zelensky? Surely, that's exactly it! Namely.

              The Soros Foundation is one of the "largest INDEPENDENT sponsors of Ukrainian civil society" which finances the Anti-Russia project.
              At the same time, he The European Union is Soros's pocket structure within the EU. Namely, a network of civil society groups helped by the Soros Foundation in the EU, has allocated more than $2014 million to Kyiv since 250, playing an important role in Kyiv's resistance in the face of the Russian Northern Military District in the US proxy war with Russia on Ukrainian territory.
              The Soros Foundation is also PRIVATELY enriching itself from the war between Kyiv and Russia in Ukraine

              Zelensky pretends that he does not understand that Washington, like its PR fund, i.e. The Soros Foundation, in the war not only of Ukraine against Russia, but also in the US war against the EU, is betting on Poland as its MAIN EUROPEAN VASSAL in the near future, using the historical ambitions of the Polish gentry, which no other Eastern European state has. Warsaw, which dreams of being reborn on the scale of the imperial Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the mid-XNUMXth century, is willingly trying on the crown of the main European power, whose main rivals historically were Russia, Germany and France.

              And Zelensky cannot be bothered by Biden’s resignation from the post of US President as a protege of the US “Deep State” from the US Federal Reserve bankers and the possible return of Trump.
              Therefore, Kyiv will definitely interfere with its blackmail in the US presidential elections.
              1. amr
                amr 12 September 2023 12: 07
                -1
                [quote=Tatyana][quote]i.e. The Soros Foundation, in the war not only of Ukraine against Russia, but also in the US war against the EU, is betting on Poland as its MAIN EUROPEAN VASSAL in the near future, using the historical ambitions of the Polish gentry, which no other Eastern European state has..[/quote ]
                That’s what I thought, even so it will be necessary to demonstratively hit tactical nuclear weapons in Warsaw!
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        2. tihonmarine
          tihonmarine 11 September 2023 15: 19
          0
          Quote: Lev_Russia
          Now, most likely, the EU can blackmail the drug addict by saying that it may return the ukromuzhiks for mobilization to Ukraine, or it may not return...

          The latter is more likely.
        3. dedusik
          dedusik 11 September 2023 16: 47
          0
          Well, returning it would only benefit Zelya. wassat
        4. alystan
          alystan 11 September 2023 23: 11
          +3
          Erdogan only threatened to release a wave of migrants into Europe, which he absolutely does not need

          Why are you making a comment?
          Erdogan “released” the first million mainly through Bulgaria and partly through Greece.
          This is right after “Baba Angela” invited everyone to Germany.
          And a little later he began to blackmail with the “second wave” of migrants from Turkey.
          In Turkey itself, millions of Syrians and representatives of other countries are forcibly held in special camps, where large flows of financial and other humanitarian aid have flowed. And in these same centers, new militants were recruited for the Islamists, first against Syria and the Kurds, and then they began to be transported to Libya.
          For Zelensky, everything got out of control as soon as such a mass of people suddenly rushed to Europe and even further, right up to the Mexican border. Now he is trying to take control of them all, again with the help of the local governments.
    2. vvnab
      vvnab 11 September 2023 12: 59
      +14
      They will not arrange anything, especially against the backdrop of statements about the possible mobilization of refugees
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      1. Orange Bigg
        Orange Bigg 11 September 2023 13: 32
        +4
        According to Zelensky, cuts in Western aid to Ukraine could provoke unpredictable reactions from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU, who, as he put it, have generally “behaved well” so far and are “very grateful” to those who have sheltered them.

        This could be a bad story for Europe

        - declared Zelensky.


        What is this? Another blackmail from the Ukrainian president?


        laughing The president is a terrorist. He will simply be eliminated for such threats, and the refugees will be kicked in the ass and out of the EU.

        This is what he brought his country to. From an interview with Yakov Kedmi.
        Ukraine is demographically disfigured, the population is not able to reproduce itself and is rapidly decreasing. Today, less than 20 million people live in Ukraine. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to Western estimates, exceed 450 thousand people killed and twice as many wounded, of which 70 percent are seriously wounded who will never return to the front. If we remember that the loss of officers and commanders in combat conditions is about a fifth of all losses, then it turns out that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 80 junior and middle-level commanders. The percentage of Ukrainians who returned to duty after being wounded is scanty. And who counted the missing and prisoners of war? The total irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already estimated at one million people. Add to this the colossal migration and remember that the main flow of emigrants is women aged 20 to 40 years. That is, the men were killed, the women left, there was no one to give birth to and no one to give birth to. Ukraine has entered the stage of a total catastrophe: military, economic, industrial, demographic, geographical, social. Ukraine has sentenced itself to extinction.


        https://k-politika.ru/kedmi-u-rossii-est-besproigryshnyj-variant-navsegda-konchit-s-ukrainoj/
        1. Alex777
          Alex777 12 September 2023 09: 05
          +1
          Quote from Orange Bigg
          The president is a terrorist. He will simply be eliminated for such threats

          It seems that everything is heading towards this.
          Zelensky's threats to the EU are laughable.
          And they will help less and less.
          It has no influence on emigrants.
          This is not why they left 404.
      2. Paul Siebert
        Paul Siebert 11 September 2023 13: 47
        0
        Quote from yuribaxter
        I’m just for.....if only the shaggy guys would take the Reichstag or Buckingham Palace)))

        The only thing the chubby can grab is the cheek!..
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    4. knn54
      knn54 11 September 2023 13: 51
      0
      EVERY hospitality has its term.
      1. carpenter
        carpenter 11 September 2023 14: 34
        +1
        Quote: knn54
        EVERY hospitality has its term.

        This will not affect those who work. In some countries, refugees must pass a language proficiency test within a year and get a job; these persons are granted a residence permit; they enjoy all the benefits of the state; they are not subject to deportation. And there are quite a few such former citizens of Ukraine. I see these every day.
    5. abrakadabre
      abrakadabre 11 September 2023 13: 58
      0
      Yeah, the West is starting to blackmail Zelya, like if you don’t give money and equipment, then our Svidomo madmen will make you all laugh...
      It is he who gives a hint to Europe: collect all the Ukrainian emigrants to the heap and send them back. For disposal in meat storms.
    6. carpenter
      carpenter 11 September 2023 14: 23
      +2
      Quote: Nexcom
      Yeah, the West is starting to blackmail Zelya, like if you don’t give money and equipment, then our Svidomo madmen will make you all laugh.....
      Well, it would be interesting to see what they will arrange there....... They invited themselves, so now.....

      Although he is a Jew, he is a bit stupid. Refugees sitting in Europe are not rocking the boat, they are afraid that they will be deported to Ukraine, and there is the front, “meat assaults” and death, and at best, crippling.
    7. your1970
      your1970 11 September 2023 15: 27
      +1
      Quote: Nexcom
      our Svidomo madmen will make you all laugh.....

      Found the fools yeah...
      Any kick - not even protest rallies - but simply an administrative charge for drinking vodka in the wrong place - in the current situation - Automatic deportation to war...
    8. Grim Reaper
      Grim Reaper 12 September 2023 01: 18
      0
      Quote: Nexcom
      Yeah, the West is starting to blackmail Zelya, like if you don’t give money and equipment, then our Svidomo madmen will make you all laugh.....
      Well, it would be interesting to see what they will arrange there....... They invited themselves, so now.....

      IMHO, the “West” is beginning to understand what we already knew. :)
      "Give me money, give me money, give me money"
      (C)
    9. ABC-schutze
      ABC-schutze 12 September 2023 12: 50
      0
      I believe that here, the leading soloist of the big top on Bankovaya, is flying very far in his “forecasts”...

      For all sorts of semblances of “spontaneous” and “uncontrollable” Euromaidans” can, with a bang, (moreover, at any time while the oligarchs - “democracies” are in power there) only in Kiev, Tiflis or Yerevan . In other words, - OUTSIDE “that same” so-called. "Europe"...

      But now, on the eve of the so-called "elections" in the so-called The “European Parliament”, and even against the backdrop of a sharp and steady increase in the popularity and authority of such “nationally oriented” guys as the AfD, it is unlikely that anyone anywhere will allow fugitives from the former united Ukraine to organize mass “protest” booths...

      Moreover, a huge part of them fled not so much “from the war” as from the Euro-freebies provided to them, for POLITICAL reasons, on preferential and “simplified” terms...

      And they are unlikely to refuse it because of the “grievances” of the inhabitants of the tent on Bankovaya...
  2. Blackbeard
    Blackbeard 11 September 2023 12: 55
    +5
    Zelya is now threatening the six hosts, he’s completely lost his fear wassat
    1. Murmur 55
      Murmur 55 11 September 2023 12: 59
      +1
      Blackbeard hi, since 2022 they have not seen the edges, and they are behaving not just rudely but beyond arrogance, but what will Washington cover up.
      1. Arzoo
        Arzoo 11 September 2023 13: 06
        +1
        So they are trying to blackmail Washington. Alluding to the old corruption cases of the Biden family. It’s bad, they say, if they come up before the elections. Chubatants have no limit to impudence.
        1. Orange Bigg
          Orange Bigg 11 September 2023 14: 22
          0
          Zelensky does not understand that after the elections, no matter what their result is, his Western comrades will begin to clean up their tails so that no one can blackmail them anymore, and then I am afraid that no one will see Zelensky again.
  3. chamberlain
    chamberlain 11 September 2023 12: 57
    0
    Will they run to Canada..? They are already being given notice of deportation.
    1. Murmur 55
      Murmur 55 11 September 2023 13: 04
      +1
      chamberlain hi, it is possible that, like their idols, the Nazis will rush to South America.
  4. seamen2
    seamen2 11 September 2023 12: 59
    +2
    *cutting Western aid to Ukraine could cause unpredictable reactions from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU, who, as he put it, have generally “behaved well” so far
    And here the undisguised blackmailing of the EU has begun. Excellent, simply excellent statement Ze. Earlier, the EU threatened to sue for an embargo on Ukrainian wheat.
    And you say why is he still alive..He successfully compensates for RT, which is banned in the EU.
  5. Uprun
    Uprun 11 September 2023 13: 00
    +3
    Bravo, blow up the EU from the inside! Yellow vests will turn a little bluer. I am for it!!! Give the kid a chance to try! And you will find out who the kekly are for real!
    Or maybe this is a secret plan to raise a fuss in the EU, so that they will send those dispossessed home, to their huts, and at the border the military commissars will receive them......
    But, no problem.
    1. Murmur 55
      Murmur 55 11 September 2023 13: 06
      +5
      Uprun hi, it’s unlikely that these “refugees” know very well where to get away and where to plot.
      1. seamen2
        seamen2 11 September 2023 21: 27
        0
        “refugees” know very well where to get away and where to plot*.
        it's true. in Istanbul they behave like mice. I saw it myself.
  6. tralflot1832
    tralflot1832 11 September 2023 13: 06
    +1
    Will refugees decide to rebel in the EU? Then they will have one choice - livestock wagons to Ukraine. They have been asking for something in Europe lately.
  7. I dare to_notice_
    I dare to_notice_ 11 September 2023 13: 07
    +1
    - Eh ... They let the goat into the garden ... belay - the Europeans thought.
    So you need it.
    You need to be more selective... in your connections.
  8. faterdom
    faterdom 11 September 2023 13: 07
    +1
    That is, now the refugees are behaving well, quietly and peacefully, with a feeling of deep gratitude to every European, be it a black man of advanced years, or, God forbid, a Russian in general...
    But their angelic patience is running out, and soon they will behave worse with Europeans, because Europeans in life must and are obliged, and if they do not understand, then there is no shame in reminding them of this.
    Well, the Europeans can be congratulated on such a valuable acquisition; they can complain to the Boss if they get too hot. And so - let them repent - and pay as expected, and do not shirk such an honor. Otherwise it will be worse!
  9. kill the fascist
    kill the fascist 11 September 2023 13: 09
    0
    The top of the Saloreikha cannot come up with anything other than "give a penny".
  10. Andrei Nikolaevich
    Andrei Nikolaevich 11 September 2023 13: 09
    +1
    Ay well done! Well done, you fucking idiot.) Keep it up! Bis!)
  11. Bingo
    Bingo 11 September 2023 13: 09
    +5
    Oops! And here comes the threat to unleash the savages, who are much more savage than all the Arabs, Gypsies, Negroes, and so on! Especially excited with:
    millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU, who, as he put it, have generally “behaved well” so far

    Either they will write slogans on the walls of the hotel with shit, or they will throw shit in the mailbox, they somehow get bored without shit...
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  12. Huarabey
    Huarabey 11 September 2023 13: 11
    +1
    Is this a hint to the European Union so that they, out of sin, return all deserters liable for military service to Ukraine?
  13. flSergius
    flSergius 11 September 2023 13: 13
    0
    Threatening hosts with a migration crisis?
    Five stages of making the inevitable:
    negation
    bargaining < Zelebobik here
    anger
    depression
    acceptance (into Russia)
    laughing
    1. Rage66
      Rage66 11 September 2023 14: 17
      0
      “Anger” most likely after “denial”... Well, then “bargaining”, “depression” and “acceptance” Yes
  14. Andrea
    Andrea 11 September 2023 13: 17
    0
    Have you replaced your brains with cocaine? I crumbled this vinaigrette.
    I wonder how the contents of the stale are connected with the Ukrainian refugees? Do they get something from handouts and everything is on a short leash? They don’t give you money, Zelensky says fas?
  15. Volunteer Marek
    Volunteer Marek 11 September 2023 13: 24
    +1
    Oh, how rude! Pure blackmail. If the West were at least partially independent in matters of internal, national politics and if the Europeans were not so unconditionally obedient to the overseas master and had normal human dignity, these madmen would fly out of Europe two meters ahead of their squeal.
  16. Ezekiel 25-17
    Ezekiel 25-17 11 September 2023 13: 24
    +2
    The police are no strangers there: they will hit you in the kidneys with batons and deport you either to Rwanda or back to Nenka.
  17. Crimean partisan 1974
    Crimean partisan 1974 11 September 2023 13: 25
    +2
    overall they have “behaved well” so far
    ...when they start to behave badly, that is, the word Deportation to their homeland.... so they go and immediately to the front
    1. Ulan.1812
      Ulan.1812 11 September 2023 14: 00
      0
      Quote: Crimean partisan 1974
      overall they have “behaved well” so far
      ...when they start to behave badly, that is, the word Deportation to their homeland.... so they go and immediately to the front

      Most people there prefer to keep a low profile for their own sake.
      Only paid and completely frostbitten people brawl.
  18. hump
    hump 11 September 2023 13: 28
    +3
    Geyropa will shudder from the scum it has sheltered
  19. Incvizitor
    Incvizitor 11 September 2023 13: 40
    0
    Okay, let these fascists kill each other.
  20. Roma 1977
    Roma 1977 11 September 2023 13: 47
    +4
    A million Ukrainians in Europe will take to the streets in dirty shorts, like after the fake about Bucha? A disgusting threat indeed.
  21. Ulan.1812
    Ulan.1812 11 September 2023 13: 58
    +1
    Millions of Ukrainian refugees don’t care about Ukraine at all. They prefer to stay and live in the West, which means they can adapt and not irritate local authorities and residents.
    Zelensky, with his stupid monotony, is already beginning to tire and irritate not only the West.
    This was well demonstrated by the GXNUMX summit and the BRICS summit.
    Since the West is increasingly inclined to negotiate and there are even voices that the demarcation line may pass along the current front line, Zelensky may be removed so as not to interfere with his stupid obstinacy.
    Change to something more accommodating.
  22. Rage66
    Rage66 11 September 2023 14: 14
    +1
    Well, they’ll try democratizers from the police... There’s no Maidan with cookies there hi
  23. Million
    Million 11 September 2023 14: 26
    +1
    Our government should think about migrants.
    That's not a good call...
  24. al3x
    al3x 11 September 2023 14: 44
    +1
    I think that Ukrainian refugees, who have now taken root in the EU, will sit quietly and below the grass, so as not to be sent to gravesite. They have already disowned Zelensky as if he were possessed. Otherwise they wouldn't have run away.
  25. Jsem_CZEKO68
    Jsem_CZEKO68 11 September 2023 15: 42
    0
    Zelí svou hloupostí předá celou Ukrajinu Rusku!
    1. Jsem_CZEKO68
      Jsem_CZEKO68 11 September 2023 15: 43
      +1
      With his stupidity, cabbage will hand over all of Ukraine to Russia!
      1. faterdom
        faterdom 11 September 2023 17: 23
        +1
        What kind of cabbage is he? I don't like radishes. So on the burdock, which dog should I cling to in order to travel further?
      2. Orange Bigg
        Orange Bigg 11 September 2023 18: 30
        0
        Quote from Jsem_CZEKO68
        With his stupidity, cabbage will hand over all of Ukraine to Russia!


        It’s hard to imagine a greater misfortune for Russia. This is me without sarcasm. By the way, the EU, having acquired Ukraine, is becoming poorer before our eyes. It is like a black mark. Draw your own conclusions.
  26. TermNachTer
    TermNachTer 11 September 2023 17: 22
    +2
    The refugees are glad - glad that they got out of this madhouse and they don’t really care what happens next, since most of them are not going to return.
  27. fa2998
    fa2998 11 September 2023 17: 27
    -3
    Quote from Orange Bigg
    450 thousand people killed and twice as many wounded, of which 70 percent

    Russian losses are secret. But according to “optimistic” estimates, the ratio is 1/10. to the Ukrainian ones. This means that the Ukrainian losses must be divided by 10. That’s also a lot. what
    1. Orange Bigg
      Orange Bigg 11 September 2023 18: 32
      0
      Are there small losses in big wars?
  28. evgen1221
    evgen1221 11 September 2023 17: 40
    +1
    Aw, what a little blackmailer! It understands or will cause a reaction. Well, Europe has a wealth of experience in democratic moderation, the Inquisition would not lie.
  29. Eugene Neizv
    Eugene Neizv 11 September 2023 18: 00
    +1
    Zrada zradnaya : -President of Ukraine Zelensky said that he began to doubt the sincerity of some of Kyiv’s Western allies, who claimed that they would always support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In an interview with the British magazine The Economist, he explained that he sees insincerity in the words of partners promising constant assistance.
    “I have this feeling when I read, hear and see in their eyes when they say: “We will always be with you.” But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.' Ze said.
  30. Prisoner
    Prisoner 11 September 2023 20: 05
    +1
    The tail of the Jewish Bandera mug was pinched tightly. Started to scare the owners. It’s not for nothing that they say that a snickering dog bites its owner. It's just in vain. They will knock out the teeth and hang you on a leash.
  31. Authority
    Authority 11 September 2023 20: 23
    0
    The West has raised a terrorist state.
    Until it disappears, there will be no security in Europe.
  32. Eugene Zaboy
    Eugene Zaboy 11 September 2023 22: 00
    0
    What can I say - blackmail is the essence of Ukraine’s foreign and domestic policy. It doesn’t matter who, Zelensky, Poroshenko, Kravchuk, everywhere and always We are seeing clear manifestations of blackmail. Without this, Ukraine, apparently, is not capable of existing. Moreover, the Ukrainians themselves regard blackmail as a manifestation of force. That’s why Zelensky so openly throws around such statements. He is absolutely confident in the support of the Ukrainian electorate; they will certainly understand and accept. Where will you go - that’s the whole point of local, bazaar logic.
  33. Petr_Koldunov
    Petr_Koldunov 12 September 2023 10: 39
    0
    could provoke an unpredictable reaction from millions of Ukrainian refugees in the EU, who, as he put it, have generally “behaved well” so far and are “very grateful” to those who have sheltered them.

    During the discussion of overt blackmail and threats from the unshaven clown, no one noticed a blatant substitution of the thesis: since when did Ukrainian refugees begin to “behave well” and “be grateful” for being sheltered?
    In fact, from the very first days, when they ran beyond the cordon back in February 2022, they began to behave there in an extremely arrogant and boorish manner, demanding that they be accommodated in hotel suites, fed for free, maintained for free, transported for free, paid social benefits and communicate with them in language!
    At the same time, they acted terribly, there were no words of gratitude from them - there couldn’t be any, since they didn’t ask, they demanded! And they were indignant that it was not at the level that, in their opinion, they were obliged to receive...