A short reply to Mark.
As written one may think it was a no choice to welcome Ukrainian refugies. This is not true.
This is the term "Ethnic Ukrainien" I do not like. Am I an "Ethnic French"? It means nothing except perhaps for these times
Holocaust by Bullets: The Early Collaboration to Wipe Out Europe’s Jews (ushmm.org)
Meanwhile the wikis are updated saying that the "Ethnic Ukrainiens" were occupying the whole territory of the past Soviet Ukraine (and even more). Does it remind you something?
I think you are still misunderstanding me (and I hate to be misunderstood).
Yes, Poland had a choice whether or not to open its border with Ukraine to allow refugees to cross. And they should be congratulated and supported for doing so. But my point is that
once the refugees are in Poland, the lack of border controls within the Schengen Area mean that most other EU states have no ability to control whether refuges then travel to those countries. Which is fine, if that is what they want, but you can make the case they are not being
generous, humanitarian or
flexible, but just making the fact that they have no choice about their open borders sound like active support.
My use of the term 'ethnic Ukrainians' was clearly not appropriate, and has rightly been questioned by you. I was being coy and failing to just say 'black people'. It is not my intent to make this a discussion about Central European ethnicity, but I was just trying to say that news reports suggest that people with a dark skin colour (whether immigrants to Ukraine from Afghanistan, or PhD students on academic placements from Uganda) are being discriminated against at the border and in refugee facilities, and should be offered better support.
You are welcome to start a conversation about Ukrainian ethnicity, of course, but that's nothing to do with me, or what I was (clumsily) trying to say.