[Boudica]

The news? If you mean mainstream media, then I don't consume that so I miss whatever 'they' want you to be outraged about on any given day. 

I say our news, but it is a tonnage of different sources. Mainstream media ofc are included in that, but also a number of different individual accounts, independent from the usual news companies. 
I would always argue one should evaluate how believable you find your sources of information. However, I am equally hesitant to completely dismiss reports from this wide a number of sources. I think either action is a bit ignorant/naïve! haha.

This story has definitely spun into a bit of misinformation. Many of African students ended up at the wrong borders because their own nations gave them bad information of where to go, hence why their treatment at the border was negative. Ukraine has apologized for any racism these students experienced, and their respective African nations have apologized as well. In regards to beating up non european descend people, that's just Eastern Europe, you get rocked for being from a different city, it's what it is. It's definitely a story to keep the racism narrative alive for the Western world only because how irrelevant it is COMPARED to Putin savagely killing citizens, no regard for human life.

I know what you mean. There are a few stories where there is genuine racism occurring, and I feel for those people. It shouldn't be happening to them. However, that is probably 0.1% of the overall refugee experience. I do also personally believe it's hyped up worse than it is, because race is very topical in western media. I think most people watching are sitting there thinking "yes, ok, that's unpleasant, meanwhile there are children dying!?"