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Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Unaccompanied minors face neglect in UK refugee accommodation

Charities have raised concerns over the welfare of lone refugee children in the UK, who have been placed in accommodation by the Home Office.

Unaccompanied minors who have crossed the Channel are being housed in hotels, where they are reportedly suffering from hunger and neglect according to charity workers.

Ukrainian refugees to be housed in apartments confiscated from tax evader

Thirty flats in an apartment complex in central Italy will be used to house about a hundred refugees who fled Ukraine. The units were confiscated from an entrepreneur found guilty of financial crimes.

'Ready to face challenges in a new country': 72-year-old Ukrainian on fleeing war

After the Russian army bombed her town, Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, Valentina Ejova decided to flee. The 72-year-old Ukrainian woman first made her way to Moldova and then to Austria. This is her story, as told to the United Nations Population Fund.

Monday, 18 April 2022

Italy: Ukrainian refugees exploited in counterfeit cigarette plant

Italian police have reportedly discovered a factory producing counterfeit cigarettes in which ten foreign workers, among them Ukrainian refugees, were exploited.

Financial police from the Rome Provincial Command carried out a raid on an alleged counterfeit

German minister: No upper limit on Ukrainian refugees

Germany's transport minister says the government will not set a ceiling on the number of refugees it takes in escaping the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, a survey showed most Germans were keen to help those who flee.