Since Russia’s war began 12 days ago, the number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country to neighboring Poland has exceeded one million, the Polish Border Guard said.
“Today at 8 p.m. the number of people who fled from Ukraine to Poland exceeded one million. This is a million human tragedies, a million people banished from their homes by the war,” the Border Guard said in a tweet late Sunday night.
“The million people after crossing the border, heard from Border Guard functinaries ‘You are safe’,” it added.
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On Sunday, UN High High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said over 1.5 million people had fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries since Russia’s military invasion began on February 24.
The EU has approved a mechanism Temporary Protection Directive to protect Ukrainian refugees without the normally required lengthy asylum procedures.
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