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They need a job because they are fleeing a war they didn't ask for and are trying to get back on their feet. I don't blame them for doing it. I just don't like it.

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There are other jobs that don't require being gross.

In this economy? I don't know anymore.

People with skills and knowledge how to earn and spend money want to have high paying job, how dare they!

The same can be said about organized crime. Doesn't make it less slimy.

And yet they spent thousands on this prank. There is shortage of people able to work or fight in Ukraine, the country is fighting for survival and these two are busy spending thousands of euro on creepy shit.

You're free to donate money to Ukraine yourself. They didn't ask to be born there or to be in that situation.

I live in a country with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees just living their new lives, working - and spending the money, sometimes a lot of it for expensive apartments, nice cars, luxury meals etc. Are all of them bad just because they don't want to be responsible for the state when they didn't sign up for that and nobody paid them to do so? I really don't think so. They are people like you and me, they want to live a happy life. Some contribute to the defense effort, some don't, both is fine.

I do donate. I do not expect them to be patriots and go die in a trench, but I also expect them to not be creeps and dickheads abroad. Their behaviour and narration presents a couple of cash-rich, entitled people detached from reality. They are not helping their own cause.

Are they trying to help any cause other than their own? Also - don't generalize based on nationality, please. These behave like this, others behave differently. This changes nothing about the war in Ukraine or Ukrainians.

They are refugees. They are not entitled to the same quality of life as they enjoyed in their own country. Nobody says they can't have it, but trying to maintain it by using digital footprints of 299 deceased people and stalking living persons while spending a lot of cash on toys is not going to help them last long in the UK. They need to accept what is obvious--they are refugees and may have to adjust their own expectations for a while. It helps to have friends when you are a refugee, but so far they upset people and have a permanent record on the internet linking their name with this idiotic stunt.

They are people. They are entitled to everything every other human is entitled to. Including being idiots.

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