A number of Black people living in Ukraine, many of them exchange students, have reported being blocked as they tried to board trains to escape the war.
the incidents, with the African Union calling it "shockingly racist and in breach of international law."who came from Ukraine by Polish white supremacists last week, first reported by the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza ,Local police in Poland acknowledged the attack, but warned of fake reports of violence toward refugees aimed at deterring them from coming.Kimberly St.
Julian-Varnon, a historian and University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate who studies Ukraine’s Black population, told Axios: "Unfortunately, as a person who’s worked on the region for over 10 years, this is not surprising."is a culmination of racism that has always existed in this region, and it’s being exacerbated by the chaos of war," St. Julian-Varnon said about the accounts of discrimination as people fled Ukraine.