The Independent newspaper wrote that the Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Spain last April started returning to their country due to the high cost and lack of job opportunities.
He added that many Ukrainians currently face unemployment in Europe and the inability to find housing, preferring to return to Ukraine for their families and a familiar life, despite ongoing hostilities.
The newspaper quoted the Ukrainian lawyer Yuri Blagants, who decided to leave Spain, wrote: “I can’t live here, in Spain I work only to pay the rent and food.”
Saying that he used the International Red Cross refugee program after arriving in Spain, Yuri said: They sent me to a hotel in Parle Madrid, where they offer you accommodation and food in exchange for Spanish courses, but in which courses? I will participate. If I had a diploma, I would speak Spanish fluently. I need a job.”
Yuri went to Spain in search of work, but after leaving housing, he left the program for refugees, and when he returned 5 days later, he found that his room was occupied by other Ukrainians.
Katya, Yuri’s friend, said: “Even if I have a job here, to rent a small apartment, they ask me to provide a paycheck and a guarantor, and I can’t provide all this, because I don’t have any. Any.”
He added that he wants to return to Kyiv.
He noted that “he is not afraid of hostility in his country, at least I will be with my family and I will not think about where to spend the night.”
“They are dying of hunger,” added a representative of the Spanish fund Padrina, which helps more than 1,800 Ukrainian families. It seems that the government does not care about the plight of refugee families.
The newspaper reported that the city of Granada had approved the departure of 100 Ukrainian families for similar economic reasons.
Source: Lebanon Debate
