On 25 February 2022, the day after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Government of Slovenia stated it would offer protection to refugees fleeing from Ukraine (RTVSLO, 2022). However, it did not extend a similar welcome to other refugees from the Global South and took the following position on Twitter (now X) to justify this decision: ‘Ukrainian refugees come from an environment, which is in a cultural, religious and historical sense something absolutely different than the environment from which refugees from Afghanistan come from’ (cited in Vasev, 2022 [My translation]). According to media reports, this social media post was deleted on the same day after several critical non-governmental representatives iterated that such statements expressed discrimination based on nationality and racism towards Global South refugees (Vasev, 2022) as it reinforced the message that only refugees with certain backgrounds were welcome and could receive protection.