Ukrainians in western Ukraine and Kyiv willing to help Donbas women and …
According to the ZIK survey, 80% of residents of west Ukraine capitals and Kyiv are willing to help Donbas refugees.
There’s only one rub: Donbas men are not welcome, they should stay in the east and help liberate their land from the terrorists, Ukrainians say.
“We have to help them,” a girl from Ivano-Frankivsk said. “Easterners should realize that we are a single family. When they feel this it will help them to live through this hard time.”
However, some respondents indicate that, when Western, Southern and Central Ukraine lads are dying in the east, those giving refuge to Donbas evacuees should be more alertive.
Among the refugees there are many able-bodied men who, probably, sided with the separatists and now fled to the west to save their skins, some respondents said.
Some Western Ukrainians complained that many Donbas refugees are choosy, demanding better housing than they have been offered and not cooperating with their hosts.