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02-08-2022, 07:20 AM
"Everything is so expensive at the gas station," she says.
Some Ukrainians, mostly women, just want to go home for days or weeks, and to pick up forgotten documents and supplies of clothes. Or visit their parents – or their husbands who weren't allowed to leave the country. But many also want to return permanently.
Germany's national railway transported Ukrainian passengers free of charge, they were allowed to visit theaters without having to pay for tickets and even to help themselves to clothing in charity stores.
Why, then, do many of the 880,000 Ukrainian refugees registered in Germany want to go home so soon after coming here?
She says her husband Evgeny encouraged her to leave. "If only for the sake of the children," he had argued. He said his sister in Reutlingen would help them. Dorokhina's parents were against her fleeing. Her closest friend accused her of being cowardly by leaving Ukraine at the moment of its greatest crisis.
Anyone who decides to travel home to Ukraine from Germany is on their own. Return counseling centers – offices that usually provide support to asylum-seekers whose applications have been rejected – are not assisting Ukrainians who want to go back. There is no funding for when they get started again in their home country and nor are their travel costs picked up. At the centers, women are told, "Don't go back, it's too risky." The normal, publicly funded-repatriation programs have been suspended because of the war, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) warns on its homepage.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/eur...2a530eb85a
Some Ukrainians, mostly women, just want to go home for days or weeks, and to pick up forgotten documents and supplies of clothes. Or visit their parents – or their husbands who weren't allowed to leave the country. But many also want to return permanently.
Germany's national railway transported Ukrainian passengers free of charge, they were allowed to visit theaters without having to pay for tickets and even to help themselves to clothing in charity stores.
Why, then, do many of the 880,000 Ukrainian refugees registered in Germany want to go home so soon after coming here?
She says her husband Evgeny encouraged her to leave. "If only for the sake of the children," he had argued. He said his sister in Reutlingen would help them. Dorokhina's parents were against her fleeing. Her closest friend accused her of being cowardly by leaving Ukraine at the moment of its greatest crisis.
Anyone who decides to travel home to Ukraine from Germany is on their own. Return counseling centers – offices that usually provide support to asylum-seekers whose applications have been rejected – are not assisting Ukrainians who want to go back. There is no funding for when they get started again in their home country and nor are their travel costs picked up. At the centers, women are told, "Don't go back, it's too risky." The normal, publicly funded-repatriation programs have been suspended because of the war, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) warns on its homepage.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/eur...2a530eb85a
