© APUkrainian refugees sit in a home of a resident in the village of Guissona, Lleida, Spain, Thursday, March, 17, 2022.
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees remain without financial assistance from the government due to bureaucratic issues.
Spanish newspaper
El Pais reported on Friday that thousands of Ukrainian refugees are still waiting to receive financial assistance from the Spanish government which had promised to donate money in June 2022.
The report says that the authorities failed to deliver financial assistance to Ukrainian families, citing bureaucratic issues in Spain's autonomous communities who are responsible for delegating the money, where 70% of the funds had already been transferred in October 2022.
Eight autonomous communities, including Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia, Madrid, and Murcia, confirmed that they had not transferred the financial assistance to the families, citing various reasons for the delay, the report adds.
It further states that the funds were supposed to provide assistance to 40,000 out of almost 170,000 refugees who arrived in Spain since the beginning of the conflict.
They are specifically intended to assist those who do not rely on the state reception system and reside with family relatives or acquaintances without any other financial support.
Comment: Western governments were already failing to provide for their own citizens, as well as the tens of thousands of migrants that are also arriving on their shores.
Amidst this, it then wages a proxy-war against Russia, that inevitably resulted in millions of Ukrainian refugees, which the West claims it will look after; although the largest portion of which have actually fled to Russia.
In the meantime citizens of Europe are now in open revolt as living standards continue to plummet, and worsen further with the blowback of the energy sanctions and soaring inflation:
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In one day: Machete-wielding 'terrorist' storms churches in southern Spain; Pensioner 'terrorist' arrested for sending letter-bomb to Spanish PMYahoo reports on the 6 tanks Spain is preparing to send; that's 6 of the 500 tanks Zelensky has demanded be sent to Ukraine, where Russia will shortly after convert them into scrap metal:
Spain almost ready to transfer Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine
"The Ministry of Defense is already working on adjusting six Leopard 2A4 battle tanks, which will be sent to Ukraine," the message says.
"The battle tanks are at contractor Santa Bárbara's facilities in Alcala de Guadaira, where they are undergoing the fourth stage of overhaul - the most comprehensive one - before being sent to the front."
The article notes that the authorities will spend EUR 4.1 million ($4.38 million) the get the tanks in order.
Leopard-2 main battle tanks, which Spain will send to Ukraine in spring, have left the logistics base of Casetas. Since 2012, 53 tanks, which Madrid acquired from Germany, have been stored there.
On Feb. 26, Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced that the repair of Leopard tanks for Ukraine had begun, as well as the training for tank crews and brigades that maintain the machines.
Previously, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine needs 300-500 tanks for a major offensive to liberate Ukrainian territory from Russian occupation.
WTF !! I was outraged as I am sure many others were when they heard this and would be only too happy to send the bitch back to fight for Ukraine !