The Commission against Racism of the Council of Europe assessed in its annual report that "extraordinary efforts" were made to support Ukrainians, but that the attitude towards them often depended on ethnicity.

It was stated that the accommodation offered to Roma with Ukrainian citizenship was of lower quality than other Ukrainians in the same situation.

It was established that all displaced persons, regardless of nationality, skin color or religion, should be provided with adequate protection and support.

According to the Council of Europe, incidents against Ukrainians have been recorded, but solidarity and support still prevail, while hostile speech is more prevalent against people from other parts of the world.

There are about six million people displaced from Ukraine in Europe, according to Reuters.

"In the historical awareness of those who live in Košiče, the urban legend is strongly entrenched that Luník IX was built as a model housing estate in a pleasant environment near a forest. The legend also claims that an 'experiment in socialism' was undertaken at that housing estate according to which non-Romani and Romani families were meant to live together there. The non-Romani families were meant to be employees of the armed forces, i.e., the army and the police. However, the experiment went awry and the outcome was that the Romani residents destroyed the housing estate," author Ondrej Ficeri describes the "classic story" about the creation of the housing estate in the introduction to his book entitled Luník IX: Zrod romského ghetta [Luník IX: Birth of a Romani Ghetto]. This interpretation of the rise of the most notorious housing estate in Slovakia can commonly be found in various online and print sources where it is usually presented as fact. In his book, Ficeri carefully confronts that narrative with the available facts from archival materials.

On the basis of that evidence, Ficeri tells the story of Luník IX once more, explaining the context and the circumstances of its creation, why it featured the attributes of a ghetto for Romani people from the start, and what this favorite “legend” tells us. 

Link: https://romea.cz/en/world/author-says-the-lunik-ix-housing-estate-in-slovakia-was-never-an-experiment-in-socialism-but-a-ghetto-based-on-race-from-the-start