REFUGEES stuck in Libya have hit out at European governments’ treatment of non-white refugees following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At least 368,000 people have reached the borders of Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova from Ukraine, the United Nations’ refugee agency said today. Government agencies across the continent expressed solidarity with Ukrainian refugees over the weekend, sharing images of the country’s blue and yellow flag on social media and lighting their buildings up with the same colours. Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told reporters that the people fleeing Ukraine were “not the refugees we are used to. “We call on all relevant authorities to let African refugees into Poland like any other refugee.

Source: Libya Today February 27, 2022 23:34 UTC