Poland expects “very tough” situation with refugees
The Polish Deputy Minister of the Interior, Paweł Bossernaker said on Tuesday that “the next few weeks will be very hard” due to the arrival of refugees from Ukraine, whose number now exceeds 1.2 million. At a press conference in Warsaw, Bossernaker explained that “the first refugees who arrived in Poland had places to go, such as the homes of relatives and friends”; “But now,” he said, “there will be more and more people” who have nowhere else to turn “and who simply want to escape the war.” According to the Polish Border Guard, since February 24, the day the invasion of Ukraine began, 1.2 million refugees have crossed the Polish border, of whom 141,500 arrived in the last 24 hours.