So far, about a quarter of a million places for refugees from Ukraine have been secured in hotels and other residential buildings, about 10% of them are occupied, said the head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister Michał Dworczyk. Most of the over 600,000 people who crossed the border with Poland last week stay with their families and friends.
“We have prepared over a quarter of a million places in hotels and various types of housing, which has just been secured by the Ministry of Interior and Administration,” Dworczyk said on Radio Zet.
When asked if these places were already taken, he said “absolutely not”.
“Twenty-several thousand, i.e. less than 10% occupied, because the remaining huge crowd of Ukrainians who entered Poland came to their families and friends, and it is they who locate them at home,” he explained.
He pointed to the possibility of increasing this base.
When asked for what period of stay of Ukrainian refugees Polish families should be prepared, he said that this was “another unpredictable element” and that the current situation was not a short-term one that could end within a week.
“Our task as a state, and speaking of the state, I mean not only the central administration, but also the local government, is to create such conditions that those who want to stay due to the situation in Ukraine in our country, and at the moment they are with these individual families, they also got their opportunity to stay here for longer,” he stressed.
The Border Guard announced this morning that since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that is from February 24 this year, the Polish-Ukrainian border has exceeded 672,500 people.
Source: Radio Zet and ISBnews
