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From the Liveblog of
Friday, March 18, 2022
From the Liveblog of
Friday, March 18, 2022
Poland says over 2 million refugees have now crossed border from Ukraine
Refugees are seen as they wait for further transportation at the raiway station in Przemysl, Poland, on March 17, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
WARSAW — Poland’s border guards said Friday that more than two million refugees had crossed into the EU member from neighboring Ukraine since the February 24 Russian invasion.
“At 9 am the number of refugees from Ukraine exceeded two million. It is mainly women with children,” the guards said on Twitter.
The United Nations says some 3.2 million refugees have now fled Ukraine, with millions more displaced internally.
