Some 100,000 Ukrainians have crossed into Poland since the start of the Russian attack, Polish Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker announced on Saturday.Polish Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker announced today that some 100,000 Ukrainians have crossed into Poland since the start of the Russian attack (YURIY DYACHYSHYN/)“Since the launch of war operations in Ukraine and until today, along the border with Ukraine, 100,000 people crossed from Ukraine into Poland,” Szefernaker told reporters at the Medyka border post in southeastern Poland. YURIY DYACHYSHYN/)The official indicated that 90% of the migrants have a place to sleep, either in the houses of friends or relatives and that the rest will be received in reception centers that will be deployed near the border (YURIY DYACHYSHYN /)There they will offer food, medical assistance, a place to sleep and an information center on what procedures they need to perform (YURIY DYAHYSHYN /)The director of the Border Police, Tomasz Prague, added at the press conference that only on Friday about 50,000 people crossed the border (YURIY DYAHYSHYN /)Poland, where about 1.5 million Ukrainians lived before the invasion, has expressed strong support for Kiev and has so far received most of the displaced (YURIY DYACHYSHYN/)“According to the latest update, 116,000 fled to neighboring countries since February 24, mainly to Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia and Romania,” reported the UN refugee agency, UNHCR (YURIY DYACHYSHYN /)Other Ukrainians fled to Germany. Although, compared to Poland or Romania, the country is not in the front line, it could quickly become a place of mass reception for the displaced (Emilio Morenatti/)Berlin has promised to deliver aid to Ukrainians fleeing bombs and the country has a strong reputation as a generous host, after the arrival in 2015 of hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing wars in the Middle East, mainly in Syria ( DANIEL LEAL/)“Today we receive 75 Ukrainians. This is not much but we expected many more in the coming days,” explained Sascha Langenbach, spokesman for the migrant management body in the German capital (YURIY DYACHYSHYN /)Another route being used by the displaced is between Moldova and the Black Sea, crossing to Romania by ferry on the Danube River (PETER LAZAR/)People waiting to take the train to Poland at a station in western Ukraine (YURIY DYAHYSHYN/)The authorities of Moldova, Hungary and the Czech Republic, in addition to Romania and Poland, have reported that a wave of displaced persons began to arrive in their countries (JANEK SKARZYNSKI /)For their part, the Slovakian authorities assured on Thursday that dozens of cars from Ukraine have had to wait up to 12 hours at the busiest road junction between the two countries (JANEK SKARZYNSKI /)The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Thursday that the European Union is “fully prepared” to receive Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian offensive (JANEK SKARZYNSKI /)“With all member states on the front lines, we now have clearly defined contingency plans to immediately receive and accommodate refugees from Ukraine,” said von der Leyen (Czarek Sokolowski/)The official stressed that Ukraine will benefit from increased financial support, in addition to a financial assistance of 1.2 billion euros that is currently available (YURIY DYACHYSHYN /)The hospital train departed from the border city of Przemysl and has five cars adapted to transport the wounded and four cars equipped with humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian district of Lviv (Petr David Josek/)The Przemysl railway station, on the border with Ukraine, has become one of the main entry points into Poland for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war (Petr David Josek/)Transfers to different cities are organized from the platforms (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/)The majority of refugees from Ukraine are women, children and the elderly (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/)A device made up of national and municipal police, firefighters, members of the paramilitary militia and Ukrainian or Polish volunteers who are students of that language, receive people with thermoses of tea and baskets of sandwiches (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/)Support staff escort people to a registration desk, in case they want to leave for a Polish city as soon as possible, and group them according to the destination of their choice (Petr David Josek/)Refugees were settled in a school in the city of Przemyśl, in southeastern Poland (WOJTEK RADWANSKI /)The Polish government has been willing to welcome all the refugees who arrive in Poland to escape the war and assured that “the labor market” in this country “can absorb a million Ukrainians” if necessary (Petr David Josek /)Warsaw has established eight reception points along its border with Ukraine and accepts anyone who arrives with an ID, passport or work permit issued in that country (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/)To speed up procedures, the Polish authorities do not require vaccination certificates against COVID-19 (Petr David Josek/)More images of the confusion in the midst of the war (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/)More than a million Ukrainian nationals live in Poland, and unofficial estimates put that number at around two million (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/)The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, estimated that the conflict triggered by Russia with Ukraine could lead to “a new refugee crisis” with “up to 5 million additional displaced people” (WOJTEK RADWANSKI /)Although the number of refugees has already exceeded 100,000, the number was increasing rapidly as Ukrainians gathered their belongings and hurried to escape the assault of Russian troops (WOJTEK RADWANSKI /)A family that is part of the group of refugees who came to Poland after fleeing the war in Ukraine (Petr David Josek/)
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