Most of the Ukrainian refugees have arrived in neighboring countries such as Poland, Moldova, Hungary or Romania.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said Thursday in Bucharest that the number of refugees who have fled Ukraine has already exceeded the million people and that arrivals will continue to increase “if the military actions” do not stop.
In one of his acts in the Romanian capital, he has promised to support with money and other resources to Romania and other refugee receiving countries, such as Moldova and Poland.
Grandi’s visit coincided with the trip to Romania by the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyenwhich has spoken with the Romanian authorities about the imminent creation of a logistics center in Romania to centralize humanitarian aid to arrive from all over Europe and send it to Ukraine.
“For us it is important to be able to centralize all resources hereas close as possible to Ukraine,” said Von der Leyen, who thanked Romania for “pragmatism and flexibility” in dealing with the avalanche of displaced Ukrainians.
In his meeting with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, Von der Leyen spoke of the need to redouble international support to the Republic of Moldova, a country of barely 2.6 million inhabitants through which a number of refugees equivalent to 2% of its population have already passed.
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Just as it happens with Romaniawhere they have entered in the last week about 140,000 people, moldova It is a country of passage for the displaced. The vast majority of them leave Ukraine through the borders with Moldova and Romania and continue, by land or by plane, to Western countries where some have relatives.
Another EU country bordering Ukraine is Hungarywhere the Government has announced that more than 120,000 Ukrainian citizens. A good part of these refugees have as final destinations countries with large Ukrainian communities, such as Poland, Germany or the Czech Republic.
In the meantime, Slovakiaanother country bordering Ukraine, has already received 79,059 refugees from Ukraine.
The country bordering Ukraine to which most refugees arrive is, however, Polandwhich has already received more than 575,000 displaced from Ukraine.
Source: Eitb
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