[estaseuropano]

Syria and most of Africa are not "known terror states", or at least they weren't before the nightmares of civil war that enveloped them and made the people flee.

But I dare to guess that you meant to say "Muslim" without saying Muslim, but even that doesn't hold as many refugees from Syria and Africa are Christians or other religions. Kurds (often Christian), jezidis, zoroastrians, ...

The only other clear differences are the proximity and skin colour of the people.

That said, Europe has always supported refugees, e.g. Vietnamese, Turkish, etc live across Western Europe. Even the Syrian civil war initially saw a warm welcome with wide open arms - it is the sheer number of people fleeing, and indeed that often mainly younger men arrived (with women less likely to flee and more like to get stuck/"married"/trafficked/killed on the way) which turned significant parts of the population to cold hearts.

[martin8412]

Almost nobody cares about the actual skin color. It is all about the culture. Western and Arab Muslim culture is too far apart for it to ever work in most cases. Ukrainian culture is not 1:1 compatible with Western European culture either, but it is at the very least a lot closer. Most of the Ukrainians are going to their neighbor countries, mainly Poland, where they share a lot of cultural values. As I recall, more than two million Ukrainians already worked in Poland before the war. The ones not going to neighbor countries, are going to countries where they already have friends and family.

More importantly.. Ukrainians may be building societies in the areas where they live, but they are not usually based on hating the west. Ukrainians want to work for the help they've been given. Everywhere they've fled to, there is suddenly a huge popup of Ukrainians looking for work so they can support their families. They don't want to rely on government handouts.

[StopDarkPattern]

Its also a nuclear state, if Chernobyl goes haywire things are going to get dirty really fast.