People have become increasingly disillusioned with supporting refugees from the neighboring country, polls suggest
Taxpayers in Poland are outraged when they see Ukrainian refugees living luxury lifestyles, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said.
Warsaw had previously cut benefit payouts to the almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees who fled the conflict to Poland.
Polish people are appalled by “the sight of young men from Ukraine, driving the best cars, spending weekends in five-star hotels,” Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polish news portal Interia in an interview published on Tuesday. This is perceived as unfair by the taxpayers, who fund the Ukrainian refugees’ benefits, and contribute to Warsaw’s military and financial aid to Kiev, the top defense official said.
Poland is a major backer of Ukraine, and has provided it with more than €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in military aid since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict in…