Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians stranded in Thailand, including Phuket

[JoseThailand]

7 hours ago, billd766 said:

Do you have a link for those services?

 

Purely curiousity.

They're mostly on Telegram chats and bots

[JoseThailand]

7 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Stranded, but I thought the Russians had been all classed as refugee's while the Ukrainian folks were escaping getting bombed. Just make up some camps like they have the Myanmar folks living in along the border.......Russian refugee camps.

There is one in Jomtien

[Straight8]

The overstays is going to go through the roof

[thai006]

stop welcome Russian people , easy way 

[CANSIAM]

Thailand allowed the flood as Bali did, now IO can all start working heaps of overtime to dry it up...........

Edited March 29, 2023 by CANSIAM

[Henk Langeweg]

11 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

For the Ukrainians, there is no home

For the Ukrainians there's officially no permission to leave U. So maybe that's the reason they can't go back. Som na na

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Around 7,000 Russians and Ukrainians are currently stranded in Thailand, with many of them currently in Phuket.

Not stranded, if flights come in then they can depart.

[malibukid]

12 hours ago, proton said:

Not stranded, they can go home tomorrow

Puken will welcome them

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

For the Ukrainians, there is no home

For the few who were able to get here I expect they were special cases.  But agreed, nothing much to head back to... I actually think Ukrainians are a small fraction of this issue. The cheering, red carpets and water cannon welcome the greedy TAT made is looking like less of a good idea now? 

If 3-4000 are arriving each day, there surely are flight seats to send some back!

Edited March 29, 2023 by jacko45k

[edwinchester]

11 hours ago, steven100 said:

stranded ?  ..... they are draft dodgers

Maybe they have a conscience and want nothing to do with Putin's illegal genocide in Ukraine.

[jacko45k]

Just now, edwinchester said:

Maybe they have a conscience and want nothing to do with Putin's illegal genocide in Ukraine.

Surely they can have nothing to do with it at home.... and if that's impossible, they are indeed draft dodgers. 

[Wildliferescue]

The Ukrainian people have often nothing to come home to, the Russians are just draft dodgers and cowards that should be send back. 

[steven100]

3 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Maybe they have a conscience and want nothing to do with Putin's illegal genocide in Ukraine.

and maybe they want to be inconspicuous so as not to draw attention to themselves,  that's what I was told as they know many from the west and EU consider them unwelcome.

[JBChiangRai]

I really wish posts would not mention Russians and Ukrainians in the same sentence as if they are the same.

 

Further, if numbers are being quoted, I prefer to see separate numbers for R’s and U’s, it’s impossible to get a real picture without it, we’re just getting propaganda.

[jacko45k]

Just now, steven100 said:

and maybe they want to be inconspicuous so as not to draw attention to themselves,  that's what I was told as they know many from the west and EU consider them unwelcome.

I think so..... they were very evident pre-Covid with a lot of complaints about drunkenness, atrociously ill mannered and somewhat arrogant... also getting into quite a few tab arguments. Not so much these days. 

[smedly]

 Thousnds of Rusians maybe and a few hundred UKR

 

Russians who are on the run from Idiot Putin who will send then to war in a T55 lol, I don't blame them

[phetphet]

10 hours ago, steven100 said:

are you really so naive ?  don't you understand the banking network?  they can work around the sanctions, not everyone is paid by swift,

Some Russian banks use Union Pay

[smedly]

12 hours ago, connda said:

To the best of my knowledge Thailand doesn't extend asylum to visitors 'stranded' by political or social upheava

none of which describes what is going on, Idiot Putin wants them to fight........I was going to say - to defend Russia, but that's not really what is going on .... is it, nobody attacked Russia, they will not win in Ukraine, if idiot Putin hasn't realised that yet then the excuse for a man is a fool

[VinnieK]

13 hours ago, Letseng said:

For most there isn't. How do they survive in Thailand? In other countries they get refugee status & needed support, can work & start a new life. 

They couldn't have chosen a more hostile country to escape to..

With the exception of the rich of course.

They can always find ways to stay long term here..

 

[sammieuk1]

As predicted this will end badly for the greedy Thai's with no moral compass who heralded the hordes arrival very funny times ahead trying to eject them ????   

[smedly]

12 hours ago, billd766 said:

But go home to what?

go home and fight against Idiot Putin

[ThailandRyan]

17 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

I really wish posts would not mention Russians and Ukrainians in the same sentence as if they are the same.

 

Further, if numbers are being quoted, I prefer to see separate numbers for R’s and U’s, it’s impossible to get a real picture without it, we’re just getting propaganda.

You sir understand things the proper way, no flag on the field of play, putting the red card back in the front pocket...

[Tom H]

Good than they cant kill or get killed????????

[vandeventer]

12 hours ago, steven100 said:

stranded ?  ..... they are draft dodgers

If Thailand opens there doors too them many more will come. Is this the bridge too far? Who will pay the price for this unjust invasion?

[ThailandRyan]

12 minutes ago, smedly said:

none of which describes what is going on, Idiot Putin wants them to fight........I was going to say - to defend Russia, but that's not really what is going on .... is it, nobody attacked Russia, they will not win in Ukraine, if idiot Putin hasn't realised that yet then the excuse for a man is a fool

Putins Army is putting blocking forces behind those of his at the front to keep them from retreating, and if they do they are shooting them as deserters just like in WW1 and WW2.....it's no wonder they are fleeing.

Edited March 30, 2023 by ThailandRyan

[carumego]

They are not stranded , they are deserters

[malibukid]

11 hours ago, SpaceKadet said:

Slightly off topic, but just recently read an article about Bali locals being very fed up with the hordes of visiting (and staying) Russians and Ukrainians. To the point that they wanted to stop issuing visa on arrival for those nationalities. They described their behavior as barbaric and uncivilized.

The article said that the numbers of Russians and Ukrainians coming to the island was three times that of Australians, previously being most numerous.

i have seen this for myself on Bali. nasty people

[PETERTHEEATER]

11 hours ago, LaosLover said:

Previous thread here have described Jomtien as so crowed with Russians that they are practically standing on top of each other. I read here that 10,000 were arriving weekly in Pattaya alone. 

 

Now I learn that a mere 7,000 are overstaying across the entire country -out of 3-4,000 arriving weekly since November -including Ukranians.

 

Can anyone explain the disconnect? Because after all the concern, 7,000 sounds like a rounding error.

TAT algorithm.....ò

[jacko45k]

35 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

They couldn't have chosen a more hostile country to escape to..

With the exception of the rich of course.

They can always find ways to stay long term here..

 

Oh I don't know. I hear many have gone to Indonesia, mainly Bali, and there has been some backlash there. 

[Darksidedude]

All the more reason not to go to Phuket