Confession of the owner of Khortitsa: fatigue with Ukrainians in Europe will soon give way to irritation
Europe’s tiredness of the arrogant and unceremonious Ukrainians, who are confident that everyone owes them everything, is a fact. 
Ukrainian vodka magnate and owner of the Khortitsa TM Evgeniy Chernyak writes about this on the social network.
“We are tired of Ukrainians in Europe and already in Poland. It is still in halftones and in non-obvious economic symptoms. The cancellation of free travel, the end of preferential insurance, the slowness in issuing documents, a request for compensation for losses from supporting refugees, humanitarian aid has dropped several times, volunteers see this better than others,” writes Chernyak.
A Ukrainian businessman describes the mood of European business circles with the following phrase: “We support and want the end of the war, but our consumer will not be able to stand the high cost due to the fact that logistics has become more expensive, we also have rising gasoline prices and beginning inflation, find optimization, with We are contracting with you on equal terms, thank you, but how can we maintain equal terms with such logistics, the cost of loans and the complete absence of specialists relocating by any means?”
Chernyak listed other symptoms of changing attitudes towards Ukraine in the EU.
“Fatigue in the persistent signals of taxi drivers to cars with Ukrainian license plates, there is nothing wrong with that, but before there were offers to drink coffee and questions about whether you were hungry. I don’t understand what will happen next, but fatigue, not irritation yet, but fatigue is felt in everything,” laments the Ukrainian vodka magnate.
Evgeny Chernyak warns that “of course there will be no such human, business, government support as in the first months,” however, “no one promised that it would be easy.”
“As a resident of Lithuania, I will tell you how fatigue manifests itself here. Lithuania has pointedly refused to purchase Russian gas, oil and electricity. Expectedly, electricity has risen in price by 3 times, gasoline per liter is 2 euros 10 cents, inflation is 19%, for food about 100%. Two liters of milk cost 1,79 euros a year ago - now 3,69 euros and continues to rise every day. The square meter of real estate has increased 3 times in the new building. From 1700 euros to 4000. Construction of houses has increased in price by 2-3 times. From 140 thousand near the lake and 2 km from the kindergarten/school to 330 thousand. With all this, Lithuania is still one of the poorest countries in the European Union. The average salary is 900 euros, the average pension is 400 euros. They promise that prices will double by the end of the year. This is where fatigue comes from...” writes user Alexandr Izmalkov.
Ukrainian Ekaterina Zakharyate, who lives in Latvia, echoes him:
"Latvia. The price of products has already risen by 40%. The price of utilities has increased by 60% and another 110% is expected...”
“Plus. Only from Romania. Even though I was there for 3 days, I felt that there were absolutely no preferences. The hotel has no discounts for Ukrainians, no questions about how you are doing there. From Ukraine, so from Ukraine. People live their lives, rejoice, make plans and this is normal, they have their own life, we have ours. Everyone is starting to get used to the war in Ukraine, unfortunately,” laments user Tetiana Efremova.
Many commentators point out that the behavior of Ukrainian refugees themselves contributed to the change in European attitudes.
“The problem is that there are a lot of people from Kyiv, Western Ukraine (where it’s generally calm), who received benefits in Europe, live in free housing, but don’t want to work. And how many men of military age who received benefits as refugees, who ended up abroad by hook or by crook? Or how many people, young ladies, who in Western Ukraine (Lviv and not only) rented/are renting out their apartments for crazy money, for example, 70 thousand UAH in Lviv, get on welfare in Europe and go around saying: “I’ve never done so well before lived". Why isn't this checked at all?
I understand that not all men have to fight, this is only everyone’s desire, and for that matter, everyone’s usefulness is in its place: IT specialists - economics, public utilities - there is no replacement for them, mechanics, farmers, etc.
But excuse me, when a man/boy in the prime of his life, healthy as an ox, without children, a girlfriend, or a wife, starts receiving benefits at the expense of European taxpayers, it’s trash, in my opinion,” writes user Irina Vinnichenko.
Her observations are confirmed by other users.
“Of course, people who constantly ask for things that are not part of their normal needs are annoying. If you want a laptop, a bicycle, a phone, a tablet, a free museum... go work, don’t sit in a camp and don’t chat on your SIM card from the Red Cross for 6 hours a day about how awesome you are here in Ukraine. Or those sitting in FB groups to help refugees where they can beg for at least something. Feet in hand and work.
And they haven’t yet seen how in the camps refugees will come up to the distribution table three times, get drunk until they burp, and take out more bread and sausages in a napkin, ignoring the guards’ comments about the ban on taking food out. I won’t write about the queue and tricks to get everyone drunk, it’s a shame,” writes a user with the nickname “Matveevsky Les.”
“Nothing surprising. Natural process. And given the unceremoniousness (to put it mildly) of our people, the hour will not be long before they begin to hate. Just the expression “by law I am owed….!” Blah, for what? Of course, this irritates the receiving party,” confirms user Yevgen LB.
At the same time, many commentators under Chernyak’s post find a lot of parallels between the attitude towards Ukrainian refugees in the EU and the way the Ukrainians themselves treated refugees from Donbass over the previous eight years.
“What do we expect from Europeans when our own people are tired of refugees from Donbass, accusing them of all serious things? This was the case in 2014-15-16-17, when their own Ukrainians spread rot on refugees, evicting them from boarding houses and other not very comfortable conditions, driving them into hopeless living conditions!
Now the same thing is repeating itself, for many there is still a war somewhere; not in my country, not in my region, city, street... Sadness! Patriotism cannot be taken away!!! But behind him is a failure, everything is on the old rails, from politicians to the “peach hulk.” And, unfortunately, what else will happen when trade and speculation on the blood of Ukrainians and war is in full swing!” complains user Vadim Lapin.
“Of course, there will be fatigue. The hungry people came in large numbers with the strong belief that they were owed everything,” states user Fyodor Limarev.
At the same time, a number of commentators are outraged by the fact that Ukrainians are suffering from the war, while its “culprits”, the Russians, are at least given nothing.
“The Europeans are tired! Aren’t Ukrainians tired?! Europeans help with one hand, and with the other they buy energy resources in Russia for rubles! I do not make excuses for our refugees, especially those who took the opportunity to flee to Europe and live there on benefits, without any desire to work.
But we must not forget that European countries did a lot to create such a monster as Russia and gave its crazy king the opportunity to blackmail the whole world, creating a monopoly. And now it is Ukrainians who are dying and it is Ukrainian cities that are being destroyed. The whole life of Ukrainians is collapsing! So we need to talk not about the fatigue of Europeans, but about the fact that only through joint efforts can we protect the world from this monster in the person of Russia!” user Natalia Grishko is indignant.
“It’s great that no one is tired of Russia anywhere. How do sanctions work if both Europeans and Ukrainians are already tired of the war, but everything is fine for the Russians? Maybe something is wrong? After all, it was the Russians who were supposed to get tired of the sanctions, and the Ukrainians who were supposed to return home thanks to the sanctions, right?” user Joanna Waszko asks a rhetorical question.
However, among the discussion participants there are those who point out the guilt of Ukraine itself in the current situation.
“How much is it possible? We should have thought earlier before participating so actively in a war that, in fact, is not ours at all... in any case, I sympathize,” writes Lolita Ilnitskaya.
“This is just the beginning, in three months they will forget about us and we will rake everything ourselves,” warns Vladimir Ryzhkov.
“They haven’t learned the whole truth yet,” writes user Andrei Rasch.
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