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More than two million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion. The United Nations reported this in Geneva on Tuesday. According to the UN Organisation for Migration (IOM), a good 100,000 people from third countries were among them. Most of the people had fled to neighboring countries, said a spokeswoman for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). More than half of them, over 1.2 million, were taken in by Poland.
UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi stressed that the flow of refugees from Ukraine was not abating. Grandi said that the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Kosovo led to enormous refugee movements. These had involved “maybe two or three million” people, “but over eight years. “Now it’s eight days. “This has not happened in Europe since the Second World War.
Grandi also warned that the second wave of refugees from Ukraine would be more in need of help than the first. “If the war continues, we will be dealing with people who have neither resources nor connections abroad,” the UNHCR chief said. This will make the situation in European countries more difficult, he said, and even more, solidarity will be needed in Europe and elsewhere.
On Monday alone, around 141,500 people crossed Poland’s border guard announced on Twitter on Tuesday. A total of 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees have arrived there since the war began. And the number of war refugees is also increasing in the Czech Republic. So far, more than 100,000 people have come from Ukraine, said Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
In Hungary, a total of around 180,000 people have arrived so far, the online portal “Nepszava. hu” reported on Tuesday. It is unknown how many war refugees want to stay in Hungary or travel. Hungarian right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Facebook that the war was getting closer to the Hungarian border, so the number of refugees would grow. “We are prepared to take care of the refugees,” it said.
The number of refugees in Germany has also continued to rise. A total of 64,604 people have been reported from Ukraine so far, the German Interior Ministry said. That is about 14,000 more refugees than the day before. A spokesperson admitted that the police are currently carrying out more checks. Still, since there are no stationary controls at the EU’s internal borders, “the number of war refugees who have entered Germany may already be considerably higher. “
Meanwhile, Britain’s handling of protection seekers from Ukraine is growing. So far, Britain has accepted only 300 refugees under an expanded visa program for relatives of Ukrainians living in Britain. Defence Minister Ben Wallace announced in a BBC interview on Tuesday: “We can and will do more, “but still defended the previous approach as “generous. “
- source: APA/picture: pixabaImage by Andrea Toxiri from Pixabay
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