Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

I thought you didn't like Anecdotal evidence or is it just the bits you don’t like 🤔

Of course these women did not volunteer that info. After all it's classified/top secret information, but I have a torture chamber in a basement in my house.....I make them talk !!! Seriously - What's the big deal of two women returning to their home place to attend a friend's wedding ??? It may be news to you but they are free to come and go as they please, they are not prisioners or under curfew. Of course they talked about the wedding, showed photos, talked about life in their city now compared to before the war etc. etc. They are also in regular contact with their families & friends in Ukraine by e mail, skype, phone etc. it seems the network works 99% of the time, unlike the east of the country, the west was not bombed into oblivioin.

I would suggest that you should educate yourself more about the complex loyalties of Ukrainins especially in the east - just like the north of Ireland it's not all simply black & white. We had state sponsored terrorism here in the North (the Bloody Sunday massacre for example) no one will ever be convicted for this - same applies for atrocities carried out by Azov. In a war situation all sides commit war crimes, these should be investigated and the perpetrators, including Putin in this instance, should have their day in The Hague.

Well said even though we've disagreed in the past 😉

As you are more entitled too, like I said they are not my stories, I have explained now several times, it's a little unsettling you are still asking me about them.

Not in the slightest bit as unsettling as your one dimensional views.

I often wondered about folks who have this "Not in my Back yard approach" to certain things, you know the sort who faine sympathy, understanding, compassion etc as long as the problems they confess to be sincere about arrive at their front door 🤔

Apologies if I've offended addressing your comments, I appreciate you may not grasp this is a discussion forum, you have your observations, I have mind, shocking concept, perhaps you'd like a forum were you can go off into a tangent and have not debate or questioning of your opinions 🤔

Off to the village shortly, I'll be sure to have my HiVis attire on. And you talk about going off topic and others being personal 🙄 Tut Tut, Boggles

I never suggested otherwise. I asked about that property too.

But a modernised 3 storey Victorian house in a "stunning" location in Surrey could be worth millions, I was curious to know who would have an empty property like that.

The OP is under no obligation to answer.

the reports of some of them happily engaging in welfare tourism is becoming an increasingly bitter pill to swallow

Now in your own good time, if you could link to these reports I would appreciate it.

Don't you know that 20% of Ukrainians here has some form of job now. Others are looking for work too. These people ain't gonna cost us a penny n will show up our layabouts with their work ethic.

Just on the off chance that it doesn't work out like that the government has pencilled in 3 billion cost for next year for them!

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He is an arrogant treasonous prick. Hell get his comeuppance yet?! He's selling out the country. Like a pig on animal farm.

The mad thing is that he somehow thinks that he's showing compassion, yet all that he's really showing is callousness towards the Irish.