How are Ukrainian refugees faring in Germany? | Focus on Europe

Three women, three fates. They fled the after the Russian invasion began. How are they doing today? An insight into three different life stories.
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[@picadosinferno]

Glad they could get out, many men will never be able to tell their story.

[@anatole2478]

Imagine living your best leisurely life and benefiting from the war in a foreign country while who knows how many young lads are suffering and dying for you and your right to travel across the continent to relocate your cats (who have the right to cross the order unlike men) ... Feminism at its finest

[@TsaoneKgomo]

Actually its patriarchy that pushes that men are meant to protect women. It sees women as too weak and fragile to fight. Ukraine is a very conservative country.

[@fastwheels195]

Makes me happy to see them doing there best to integrate with the host nation.

[@NotUnymous]

Nice to see them feeling at home :-) hope they'll stay, even when piece is finally achieved in Ukraine. All the best from North-Germany

[@Einnstadten]

peace

[@dayegilharno4988]

Heartbreaking stories, brave People! Europe will be SOO much better off with YOU ON BOARD! Once all this blows over... Until then: Слава Україні!

[@user-zz8lb6bd7p]

Great to see the Ukrainians quickly assimilate, respect the locals, learn the language and progress. I'm sure there hasnt been or will be any "Cologne situation".

[@user-xj6ht2wu5d]

what is the Cologne situation?

[@hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger]

@@user-xj6ht2wu5d I think if you Google something like "Cologne/Köln New Years Incident", you will be shown the according infromation. Might not be able to write it here.

[@ljnv]

@@user-xj6ht2wu5d how long have you buried your head in the sand?

[@BerlinerFolker]

I am a New Zealander. So I have no idea what the "Clogne Situation" is. Please enlighten me.

[@abijitguptatrading]

@@BerlinerFolker the hint is, many of them worked for Jeffery Epstein.

[@TNFVLOGS]

I’ll tell you one thing.. the feminist that fled Ukraine still remain very silent on the situation😅

[@greatozgreatoz5641]

Nice to see them learning the language of the place they are staying.

[@adriancurtin6012]

Very informative.

[@placeswelive5388]

'Returning to Kiev is Out of the Question and It Has Nothing to Do with This War' should be the title of this video.

[@firstpostcommenter8078]

so True

[@user-pp1cr3jw2v]

I'm Ukrainian. Many Ukrainians who went to Germany after 2022 want to stay there, no matter who wins. Because it's a rich country, they say they don't work and get good help from German government. And many, who were evacuated to Ukraine when Russian and LPR came to our city, dream to leave Ukraine and go to Germany to live rich life. I know many families (including my relatives) who splitted, because one members of families went to Germany and plan to stay there forever, and other members chose Russia. After the armed coup that was organized by 🇺🇸, many 🇺🇦families or best friends splitted over different point of policy. Many pro-EU Ukrainians who supported the coup dreamed to leave Ukraine for Europe.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

No rich life possible with government donations in germany, it's only enough for existantial needs. Try harder, russian bot.

[@mahamadoutraore1077]

@@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlageit is still a better life than in Ukraine for many. Just listen to the video. Some even manage to send money home to relatives despite living on benefits.

[@evaburnz]

@@mahamadoutraore1077 they only left Ukraine because of the war. The reason for the war is because Putin wants to prevent Ukraine from becoming an EU nation state operating as a capitalist democracy.

[@89pleasure]

You can be very proud of yourself. Getting into another country, starting from scratch is a hard thing to do! We are all europeans. We need to stick together. Hope you're having a good time in germany and you get all what you need to start new life here! Greetings from Cologen!

[@joantrendafilov7963]

First Germany should stop being that good to them and force them to start a job, cos they have it pretty easy at the moment and is better for them not to work

[@worldupdatechannelinfocus110]

NO HATE PLEASE But be fair enough I'm in my late 20s male from West Africa and just about 6 and half years in Germany all this time in Berlin . I seek for asylum when I arrived then as a political asylum seeker but 😢 sadly was rejected I made appeal against the decision twice but still not accepted. Then I was in my early 20s and good the state was helping me with feeding money every month but about 20% of the money every month for 4 years is for my lawyer for the asylum case in court . So to cut the long story short after five years in Germany before I could get accepted and all this time I'm not allowed to leave Berlin even to visit not allowed even though after I finished My Ausbildung apprenticeship training for 3 years and still looking for apartment 2024 still can't find 😢 but it's okay I'm satisfied with what I have . But for the people that think that's how it's for everybody wrong. I hope we better stop fighting it doesn't help anybody and don't makes us feel safer

[@alash5990]

Надо жить дома а не в Европе

[@gcoffey223]

Better than those forced to the front

[@user-nm2cv4jd4w]

I think this situation is "Jetzt geht’s um die Wurst".

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Davon wüsste ich aber.

[@timmy-wj2hc]

They go towards the biggest human Liver Sausage.

[@TheTuubster]

Mich würde die redaktionelle Entscheidung interessieren, die Frauen im Kontext von Kriegsbildern lächelnd zu zeigen. Ich bezweifle auch, dass die Frauen das so gut finden.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Genau. Es ist politisch nicht korrekt zu lächeln oder etws anderes als Uniformen zu nähen. Zudem sollte man sich auf der Flucht nicht wohl fühlen und immer ein schlechtes Gewissen haben. ;)

[@Broodplank86]

If you listen to their stories then they all indicated that it is very difficult for them. Should you completely stop laughing and trying to enjoy life here and there because you had to flee? Or do you think it is maybe also healthy and good to do what you can for your home country, and embrace a (temporary) new life wherever you are. To my humble opinion the only ones not being allowed to laugh are the Russians, such aggression committed by their forces and leaders should put shame on all their faces.

[@TheTuubster]

Hier sind wieder einige pawlowsche Reflexe in den Kommentaren dokumentiert von Leuten, die Inhalte nicht verstehen können oder verstehen wollen ("Soziale" Medien halt). Ich empfehle eine Recherche zum Thema "Text Bild Schere".

[@SnowWhiteArches]

There’s no war in most of Ukraine, that’s why they constantly go there and come back to Germany. No need to be upset constantly.

[@retrolode]

The Germans of 1945 and the Ukrainians of 2024 are unusually close. How provocative this is.

[@gamerboyz2024]

Wow they're doing easy jobs. No ditch digging or construction

[@peter_meyer]

You can go to Ukraine.

[@paulwalker427]

@@peter_meyer so can they to act as nurses for example

[@SnowWhiteArches]

women thing

[@dlewis8405]

Demographic boon for Germany.

[@user-zh3ig1oj1z]

What happened to the "feminist movement" and equal rights?

[@facitenonvictimarum174]

farting ??? Wait, let me get my glasses 👓

[@Shamansdurx]

Queefing

[@uzairhashmi7054]

Good for the Ukrainians and atleast they can chose what they want in their lives...the whole west is on their side..they still got freedom and acceptance in the world...BUTTT WHAT ABOUT WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN GAZA????? Heyy crucial world...tell us...what ABOUT CHILDREN IN GAZAAAAAAA??????????

[@jan_darysh]

She looks richer than the homeless people in America where I live.

[@klausschumacher7126]

That's the American problem of turbo capitalism....

[@spirituselectus7602]

@@klausschumacher7126 More like Massive illegal Migration and Drugs, With an overdose of Woke Policies and politicians.

[@user-hi1ke5gp6n]

Я не хочу иметь детей. Никогда» Лоле 33 года. Еще в ранней юности она осознала, что не хочет иметь детей. Обдуманное и взвешенное решение вызывает массу вопросов и критики в ее адрес. Мечтать не вредно после них

[@baha3alshamari152]

At 33 it's too late to have children even if she wants to Biology doesn't care about your feelings

[@samr5887]

Such a sad thing they lieft their homeland to be modern slaves in other countries and their poor men are dying their beautfull cities, towns and vilages burning to ash😢 savage world the big fish always eating the small one😢😢😢

[@nonamegirl9368]

You call them slaves? Really?

[@MariaOsz]

They are fricking everywhere, what kind of privileged nation is it?!

[@nikobelic234]

I ask this our goverment the answer as make ukranian passport

[@fedirshu3882]

Privileged to save their lives? How dare those women and children flee the war, learn language, integrate and start working and paying taxes? What an entitled nation who fled to neighboring country with thousands of years common history, so privileged to strengthen economy and simultaneously making demographic crisis in eu less of a problem. Or where the privilege is?

[@MariaOsz]

@fedirshu3882 what woman and children? All I see is young couples coming to USA and Canada from WESTERN EUROPE. most of them are scamers not women and children escaping war. I dont see Palestine people escaping in such amounts and why??

[@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp]

@@fedirshu3882 Oh please, the vast majority of them are not fleeing danger - they're from areas nowhere near the fighting. They just want higher wages etc And no, they don't "strengthen" the economy, they lower the wages and increase social costs The demographic issues in the West cannot be solved by importing others

[@aAverageFan]

​@@fedirshu3882 Ukrainian women are infinitely more privileged compared to Ukrainian men

[@erikt1713]

For the dating market in my city, Geneva, it makes quite a difference. So many young women from Ukraine are eager to mingle. I only feel bad for Ukraine. Without them the country is finished but few will find their way back from Switzerland or Germany.

[@meallmighty4ever]

Germans should incorporate all Ukranian

[@thulsa_doom]

Nope.

[@randomguy7175]

Better then German citizens.

[@peter_meyer]

Better what?

[@dmitryivanov9026]

Why?

[@velalivre]

I see a cross, Jesus and not the Estate is in charge. That is good.❤

[@retrolode]

German must unite all Ukrainians. And give them part of the Westphalia lands.

[@obsidian313]

Nice to know that even an asylum seeker feels that it’s fine to return home twice, or you feel able to risk life and limb to rescue your cats!

[@TheTuubster]

The comment section here provides some fine examples in regard to the logical fallacies Cherry Picking, False Analogy or Whataboutism.

[@soundscape26]

Social media in a nutshell

[@dmitryivanov9026]

I guess there is a great number of Ukranian women who were happy to leave their country and move to Europe. For many it was a big dream and the war (let's not speak about how dredful it is) was just a good opporunity to make their desire come true. Even this video starts with women's smiling faces who do not look like victims at all.

[@roshant6964]

Yea right mate its npot like the host nations get anything out of it :D ,a huge number of low wage workers from eastern europe who immediately start integrating with the host culture and start paying more in taxes than they will ever get back through welfare. They are the perfect immigrants , they will work for peanuts and that too with a smile on their faces ,they will never explain about exploitation or about the fact that they are getting riped off through western styled inflation.

[@trqster]

As Ukraine slowly sucumbs as a viable state/economy to the war, there will be more and more ukranian emigrants all over Europe and in my country in south of Europe I see a lot of especially young men coming running away from a possible draft and the horrors of war :(

[@timmy-wj2hc]

Yet the hundreth big migration the US causes. Similar to the ones the US causes in Africa, Middle East and South America.

[@geotipsie]

I am angry because these women speak Russian not Ukrainian. Two weeks ago I spoke with two °Ukrainian refugees° . They came in Romania using Turkish Airline, having Armenian phone numbers.

[@geotipsie]

@@Serge-ft5et The sanctions against Russia affected all of us, so it is not a problem of °benefit° . I am frustrated because having fun in restaurants but getting a 400 Euro monthly help. Also last summer I has no money for a Holliday in Greece but watching 1+1 TV having fun in Odessa. Hello from Bucharest

[@geotipsie]

@@Serge-ft5etSorry to heard about your last Holliday . I was last year in Danube Delta - where I have a little a house and a land (16 km south from Ismail).

[@retrolode]

Russian is the international language of communication, English, German and more. Ukrainian no.

[@hasithakumarasiri8343]

😂😂😂

[@petschenje]

☮️🇺🇦

[@hiteshdodiyabajansantvani8968]

😮

[@juamu1132]

lol. i guess they retunred to their masters.

[@johnnywalker4203]

HABIB ,come to Dubai , Always a job opportunity ❤

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity. In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas. If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy. Zelensky admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements. Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time. Russia's national security was compromised once nato began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining nato was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns. 20th September, 2021. Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO. NATO is not a defensive alliance. Nato illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter). We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster? Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest. Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”. Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it. Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country. Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. (13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list.) Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list. There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas. (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence). The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present. Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave. Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) RIP. The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims). The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter. I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion. I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written. Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.

[@christianevanherck6023]

By definition, a coup is when members of a country’s political elite, most often military officers, seize power by force. That is not what happened in Kyiv in 2014. Yanukovych was not removed as the result of machinations of his country’s political or military elite. He provoked protests by refusing to sign an EU association agreement he had promised for years. The brutal government crackdown that followed these initial protests galvanized Maidan supporters and encouraged more to join. When the crowds swelled further, Yanukovych fled to Russia. So began Ukraine’s ‘Revolution of Dignity’.

[@spage80]

Wow 😳 did you memorize all the Russian lies or did you write them down. Everything you said is easily debunked and has been done many times. The truth is Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and stole Crimea and paid gangsters to start a rebellion which they supplied the weapons to include the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. When the gangsters where about to be defeated he sent 50,000 "little green men" to keep it going. Russia invaded again in 2022 despite assurance to western leaders he wasn't going to. As far as Russian speakers being treated less than human how do you explain that the current president is a native Russian speaker.

[@johoward2251]

I feel for average Ukrainians 🇺🇦 not their elites

[@stephenfrank9735]

Three women with blonde hair and blue eyes, carefully selected to elicit sympathy from us. Surely that's not what the average Ukrainian woman looks like.

[@fedirshu3882]

It is literally how Ukrainian people look- most are blond with green/blue eyes, a lot of people also have dark blond/brown hair and brown eyes. Most people are tall and have pale skin. What did you think most people in Ukraine are supposed to look like lol? And what do you mean with sympathy? Are you trying to imply that German people are still fixated on blond hair an blue eyes? Didn’t that end in 1945? Or are you projecting?

[@retrolode]

The Germans of 1945 and the Ukrainians of 2024 are unusually close. How provocative this is.

[@user-hi1ke5gp6n]

Чрезмерное использование ЦРУ на полях бое связано не с нехваткой личного состава, а с принятием желаемого за действительное о преимуществах секретности и отсутствия подотчетности.

[@bahaamuhsen3254]

Ukrainian mentality will be never adapt with the German open minded mentality ..

[@dmitryivanov9026]

" German open minded mentality" For God's sake! You must be kidding!

[@bahaamuhsen3254]

@@dmitryivanov9026 why ? Don't you think Germans are open minded?

[@dmitryivanov9026]

@@bahaamuhsen3254 well, I've always considered them reserved and conservative.

[@bahaamuhsen3254]

@@dmitryivanov9026 from your name, I guess you're either Ukrainian or Russian ?

[@user-jt4bx5kq8h]

open minded for humanity or just for certain group ?

[@der_Emanuel]

Ukraine will not win the war if able bodied people of all genders leave the country and therefore not supporting the war effort in their home country. Freedom is not free and support and logistics for the front line troops is as important as the service in the trenches.

[@user-pp1cr3jw2v]

Many Ukrainians dream to leave Ukraine for Europe or Russia. We moved to Russia, as most citizens of my region. But in the center and West Ukraine people move to EU, especially to Germany where they don't have to work, they are given much money and food for free. We Ukrainians say: there are lots of countries, but life is one! Why do you think Zelensky closed the border of Ukraine for Ukrainian men? Because majority (except of some fanatics) don't want to fight for Zelensky's regime. Every week many Ukrainian men try to escape Ukraine. Some of them froze to death in the mountains. Many are being detained and shown on 🇺🇦TV as culprits! They committed a crime according to Zelensky - they wanted to save their lives!

[@dmitryivanov9026]

How many genders are there in the Ukraine?

[@SimonMester]

"Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!" - Robert A. Heinlein

[@blolee-gc1sr]

ukraine can not win anyway

[@SalmanovGadzhimurad-pj9qq]

И для ваших детей навсегда

[@jan_darysh]

Don't use Ukrainian. Warriors are fighting to protect the Ukrainian language.

[@user-pp1cr3jw2v]

And Zelensky's regime.

[@mariapetrova3698]

There are many such families in Russia from Ukraine and the Baltic states. Germany is not unique in this sense, but people do not need to learn the language in the Russian Federation, the allowance is only given for the first time

[@cosplayshop]

Almost all Ukrainian speak Russian.......... That was mandatory to learn Russian in Ukraine until 2010....

[@mariapetrova3698]

@@cosplayshop And even now they speak the southern Russian dialect in their KZbin channels. You can't earn a lot from subscribers who understand Ukrainian.

[@cosplayshop]

@@mariapetrova3698 That's not the point, the point is they don't need to learn Russian if they already know Russian. On the other hand, most Ukrainian YT content is English, you can't earn a lot from subscriber who just understand Russian.

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

Zelensky admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements. Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time

[@retrolode]

The Germans of 1945 and the Ukrainians of 2024 are unusually close. How provocative this is.

[@she825]

Germany is going downhill.

[@13thbiosphere]

80% of Germans can speak English,. That would be more sensible strategy wouldn't it have one international language+ a cultural language,. Learning a new language at the age 40 fries the brain

[@nonamegirl9368]

No, because you're never to old to learn something new, but maybe to lazy

[@ad_astra468]

It's hard but learning a new language improves cognitive function, quite the opposite of frying the brain.

[@agshinaliyev3502]

Unlike middle east people, ukranina ( yes white people) male fight as lion and their family ( wife , sibling, mothers) stay at back.

[@etoilegale888]

You may want to use Google translate at least, that made no sense 😂

[@blolee-gc1sr]

female lion goes hunting while male lion sleep undertree but eat first.

[@SnowWhiteArches]

There’s around 200k Ukrainian men able to fight in Germany

[@agshinaliyev3502]

@@SnowWhiteArches Okay Arab, do not cry. You should clean your honor firstly, then state your opinion

[@ahmody7500]

Syrians will stay in Germany as long as they want, and you will be always be crying about it 😂