### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 7th March 2025 ###
Dear Editor,
With controversy about the war in Ukraine bubbling away and views in the US and Europe diverging, I found myself spending a day in Malaga and noticed that, all around me, I was hearing more Russia than Spanish. Of course it probably wasn’t Russian but rather Ukrainian.
It seemed like the Ukrainians were everywhere: On the shopping streets, in the bars, touring the Alcazaba (Malaga’s historic Moorish castle) and on the bus to Ronda. Indeed, at the bus station, there were several oversized posters advertising buses between Ukraine and Malaga.
This reminded me of a similar experience a year before in Catalunya where I had chatted to Ukrainian holiday-makers in Tarragona, spotted Ukrainian cars in Sitges and seen them in large numbers at Barcelona airport boarding flights to Krakow and Budapest.
While there is great suffering in Ukraine, apparently not everyone is doing so badly.
Yours,
Alan Mitcham
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