Poland's capital plans no New Year's events and fireworks in solidarity with Ukraine
In view of russia's war against Ukraine, New Year's celebrations will be inappropriate. The authorities of the capital of Poland have decided to stand in solidarity with Ukrainians.
This was announced by the spokeswoman of the Warsaw City Hall, Monika Beuth, Tvn24.pl informs.
"In Ukraine, across our eastern border, a cruel, bloody war is going on, in which peaceful people die every day. Therefore, now is not the situation that would inspire organizing such special, joyful events," said Beuth.
She also noted that, given the energy crisis, the city would limit expenses, primarily on the organization of entertainment.
In addition, the spokeswoman of the mayor's office called on citizens not to use firecrackers and fireworks on New Year's Eve, as this may cause Ukrainians, of whom there are about 100,000 in Warsaw, associations with war. She emphasized that it is mainly about Ukrainian children.
The City Council of Warsaw joined the initiative of the mayor's office, which also called to do without pyrotechnics on New Year's Eve.
As a reminder, there are 950,000 refugees from Ukraine in Poland, most of them in Warsaw and Wroclaw.
In the summer, according to the PESEL database, there were 1.4 million refugees from the war. And up to 1.3 million of our citizens were in Poland before the start of the full-scale invasion. So, in total, 2.3 million Ukrainians live in Poland now.
Previously, Polish experts stated that the Ukrainian residents in Poland benefit the economy, even considering the costs of helping refugees from the war.
"We spent 3.5 billion zlotys (750 million euros) to help Ukrainians, but the calculations of the vice president of the Polish Development Fund, Bartosz Marczuk, show that we received 10 billion zlotys (2 billion euros) from the taxes they paid," he said in November Professor Maciej Duszczyk from the Migration Research Center of the University of Warsaw.
He noted that the Polish labor market is very absorbing. Ukrainians work and pay contributions and taxes. So it is illegal to talk about the state's spending on Ukrainians.
Rubryka reported that a symbolic "tree of invincibility" was lit in Kyiv on December 19. Usually, before that, the capital's New Year's beauty reached approximately 30 meters in height, but this year, it's only 12.
It was installed with business funds, and benefactors provided the generator. Mayor of Kyiv Vitalii Klychko emphasized that no money was spent on the Christmas tree from the city budget.
