'Ugly, unprofessional': International students describe racism at the Ukrainian border.
he had such a hard time at the Poland border, he’d had to turn back and try a different way out. “I eventually left the Poland border due to the inhumane behaviors of the Ukrainian soldiers, and the acts of,” says Coy Emerald, 26. “I went back to Lviv and chose another route to Hungary.” He says he’d walked for 10 hours only to be left “unattended” at the border to Poland by people who he claims were Ukrainian soldiers. He said the had several “unexpected, ugly” interactions with the officials.
Ismail Adedolapo, a 23-year-old Nigerian who was studying in Ukraine before fleeing to Poland, says he experienced some racism as he traveled, and that officials only allowed Ukrainian women and children to leave. Still, he has sympathy for the Ukrainian people who have endured Russian aggression since the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Nazish Ehtesham, a 19-year-old student from India, also says he saw officials separating people by nationality at the border to Romania. “I don’t know whether to call that racism or what, but they were allowing less foreigners as compared to Ukrainians,” he says.the reported discrimination against African citizens. “We strongly condemn this racism and believe that it is damaging to the spirit of solidarity that is so urgently needed today,” Kenyan U.N. ambassador Martin Kimani said, in part.
Those traveling towards other countries have been quick to add that they’ve been met with kindness and aid along the way, too. “One thing I must appreciate [is] that locals and NGOs were very helpful,” Ehtesham says. “They were distributing all the necessary foods and stuff on both sides.” Nze, the Twitter user who posted videos of students being threatened with guns and vehicles, alsoan update on Monday saying citizens had been kind to him and other refugees during their travels.
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