Ukraine: has border control with neighboring states, etc

Does seem to imply that Ukrainians have this control. Very clearly, the folks in the Donetsk Oblast do not. But even folks in Western Ukraine have very little control over what now amounts to a military dictatorship in their country. So your original comment somewhat obfuscates the relationship between “Ukraine” and “Ukrainians” in so far as they’re being offered very few options that don’t involve fleeing, mobilizing, or dying.

If one wanted to be superficial, one might make some comparison between the Azov brigade currently supported and financed by the US/EU and Hamas which receives some significant support from Shia-aligned Muslim states and communities. If one wanted to be overly broad, one could argue that the bombings and troop movements along the Ukraine-Russia front line have the same sociological impact as the Israeli incursion into Gaza and parts of the West Bank.

So in a lot of ways they are the same, at least in so far as people living in a war zone are subject to inconceivable horrors.

I’ve seen a few more vitriolic folks suggest that this or that group “deserve” getting bombed because they didn’t oppose the war effort zealously enough. I’m not seeing that in your post, but I can understand how frustration with that type of poster might get displaced.

Either way, I’d say the Ukrainian refugee and the Gaza refugee have a lot more in common than you’re giving credit. If nothing else, they’re both kettled within their home countries by hostile neighbors and told to throw their lives away in this endless blood-feud if they want any kind of access to the thinning supply of resources the residents are allowed.