During a report broadcast on Sunday February 27 at the station in Lviv, a large city in western Ukraine located about 80 kilometers from the Polish border, the France 24 channel met several African students who claim to have been prevented to enter Poland through Ukrainian border guards.

Many Africans fleeing the war in Ukraine have claimed on social media that they have been turned away at the Polish border because of their skin color. Africans claim in any case to have been turned back at the border with Poland while other white people were authorized to cross. Discriminations that could tarnish the great outpouring of solidarity displayed by the European Union countries, while hundreds of thousands of refugees continue to flock to the Polish, Hungarian, Slovak and Romanian borders of Ukraine.

During a report broadcast on Sunday February 27 at the station in Lviv, a large city in western Ukraine located about 80 kilometers from the Polish border, the France 24 channel met several African students who claim to have been prevented to enter Poland through Ukrainian border guards.

“We were blocked at the border, we were told that the blacks do not return. However, we saw the whites return…” he says Moustapha Bagui Sylla, a Guinean who was studying medicine in Ukraine. According to France24, another Nigerian student queuing to buy train tickets also described a similar scene at the same location. His group, which included women, remained blocked in front of the gates of the border post while the Ukrainian guards made white people pass…

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