The number of people from Ukraine seeking protection abroad continues to rise. Poland in particular takes in a large proportion of the refugees.
Almost three weeks after the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, more than three million people have fled the attacked country. The number had just been exceeded, said a spokesman for the Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday in Geneva.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) named 2.95 million refugees on its website. Among the people who left Ukraine were 157,000 people from other countries, according to IOM data.
Poland has more than 1.8 million refugees
1.83 million refugees from the neighboring country have arrived in Poland since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. 71,600 people crossed the border on Monday, the national border guard said on Twitter on Tuesday. This is a decrease of 13 percent compared to the previous day.
According to the authorities, 194,500 people have entered Ukraine from Poland since the beginning of the war. Of these travelers, 162,000 are Ukrainian citizens. The nationals of other countries are often people who bring humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Ukraine – the largest country in Europe by area – had a population of more than 44 million before the Russian attack began. There is currently no official information on how many of the war refugees stayed in Poland and how many have already traveled on to other EU countries. Poland and Ukraine are connected by a national border that is more than 500 kilometers long.
Bulgaria registers refugees at the border
Bulgaria has implemented a system for registering war refugees from Ukraine at the border. Prime Minister Kiril Petkov inspected the facility at the border crossing on the Danube bridge to Romania near the Bulgarian city of Russe. “The problem was that they (the refugees) came in and we didn’t know where they were going. Now everything is understandable, »said Petkov, according to a report by the Bulgarian news agency BTA. The south-eastern EU country Bulgaria has so far been more of a transit country for war refugees from Ukraine.
Of the 81,000 people who have arrived via Romania since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 38,000 have currently stayed in the poorest EU country. Among them are members of the Bulgarian minority in Ukraine. Only 267 people applied for refugee status, according to the Bulgarian border police.
Source: Stern
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