This thesis was spread by the pro-Russian Internet publication in Ukraine Strana.ua. It refers to Deutsche Welle. Strana.ua writes that Ukrainian refugees are attracted by low prices in Russian-speaking travel agencies and that they are not embarrassed by the Russian language of the staff and signs “We speak Russian”. However, this is not true.

Some Ukrainian refugees in Germany actually used the services of one Russian-speaking travel agency in Bonn not because it was Russian-speaking, but because the employees of this travel agency changed the business format and decided to support and help the Ukrainians.

According to the representative of this bureau, many of their excursions are funded by charitable organizations in Cologne and Bonn. She had to convince many Ukrainians that there is nothing to be ashamed of if, instead of sitting in hostels for refugees, they go to Amsterdam for one day. In addition, the representative of the travel agency said that Ukrainians in Germany do not have Russophobia, they can clearly separate Russians who condemn the war from those who support the Putin regime and military aggression against Ukraine.

Some women told Iryna that they also faced hostility towards them from Russian-speaking residents in Germany, these are mainly those who watch Russian propaganda TV channels here and believe that Putin is fighting “Nazis and Bandera”, the article says.