Posted on 04/28/2022 6:14:26 AM PDT by Cronos
The number of people crossing from Poland into Ukraine has begun to exceed those travelling in the other direction for the first time since Russia’s invasion, after which Poland become the primary destination for those fleeing the war.
On Saturday, deputy interior minister Paweł Szefernaker noted that the previous two days had seen “fewer Ukrainians enter Poland than crossed to Ukraine”. That trend has since continued over Saturday and Sunday.
Szefernaker said that this was the first time that the flow of traffic over the border had been reversed. However, a similar situation occurred over the previous weekend, as data from the Polish border guard compiled by Andrzej Kubisiak, deputy head of the Polish Economics Institute, show.
last week, more people left to ukraine (135.9 thousand) than entered into (129.8 thousand)
This weekend, queues formed on the Polish side as more than 800 cars and 250 trucks waited to enter Ukraine at the Dorohusk crossing, while at Medyka about 700 cars were lining up, wrote Polish news website Wirtualna Polska.
“In Dorohusk, the waiting time to cross was about 10 hours while in Zosin it was around four,” said border guard spokesman, Dariusz Sienicki.
One reason for the recent rise in crossings may be Ukrainians returning temporarily to celebrate Easter, said Szefernaker. For Orthodox and other eastern churches, Easter was celebrated yesterday, while for Catholics it was a week earlier.
There have also been reports of refugees moving back home after Russian forces withdrew from some occupied areas, including around the capital Kyiv.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government is paying out special war benefits and offering housing support for those who lost homes or had to relocate to other parts of the country, writes financial news service Money.pl.
Paweł Kaczmarczyk, director of the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, told OKO.press that the crossings data alone do not tell us exactly who is leaving nor why. While some may be returning permanently, others could be “going back to pick up their stuff or visit their relatives”.
Since Russia’s invasion on 24 February, almost three million people have crossed from Ukraine into Poland. As of yesterday, the figure stood at 2.944 million, announced the Polish border guard.
The initial period of the war saw the numbers crossing into Poland surpassing 100,000 per day, reaching a peak of over 140,000. But those figures have been in decline since 7 March, falling to between 10,000 and 20,000 in recent days.
From the start of the conflict, some Ukrainians travelled in the opposite direction, in particular those returning to defend their homeland. But those numbers have been steadily rising as refugees also return, surpassing 20,000 on some days and now outnumbering crossings into Poland.
I wouldn’t return to any part of Ukraine till the Ukrainians win it.
How about in the future allowing Poles displaced by Stalin to return to Eastern Poland, which is now called Western Ukraine. It would only be right, after enjoying their hospitality in an emergency like this. Let them have dual citizenship if they want.
Most of the evacuees will return to Ukraine when they think it is safe.
In Dumbass and Dumyutzes it may never be won or lost, just a perpetual slow ferment of increasingly tribal violence. It happens sometimes.
Neither would i
Hand every last able bodied male a rifle and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Toss in some of those shiny ATGWs while you’re at it.
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Most of those Poles are dead or in their 70s.
Kresy cities like Lviv etc were Polish Islands in a sea of Ukrainians. And cities like Pinsk in what is now Belarus were 90% Jewish.
Leave the borders as is and everyone is happy.
May Jews be able to freely visit Hasidic pilgrimage places
I was helping until mid this month at Przemyśl.
I didn’t see any Ukrainian men come across. Some came to reach their families and then headed back.
And some Ukrainians came from the UK and Germany to head BACK to Ukraine to fight Putin’s army
Which is why my wife’s parents are flying to the US on one-way tickets tomorrow. We have no idea when they will be able to go back to Odessa.
How about you stop posting obvious Russian propaganda from your Orc Telegram channels.
https://twitter.com/Angelo4justice3/status/1519625104665235458
I'm sorry, not telegram Russian twitterbot account, it's amazing that you post this at the same time the Russian bots start going on about how Poland will reoccupy Western Ukraine.
The Ukrainians are returning to the areas that the Russians have cleared of neo nazi criminals. Now they can lead normal lives.
Yes. But Poland’s decency to the refugees despite the long, harsh history between the two nations is an act of Amity and Good Karma, which counterbalances the Russians’ acts of War and Bad Karma. So Ukraine countering Poland’s good act with a reciprocal, voluntary one of their own would be a beautiful thing. It’s what’s needed, imho.
See #14 above. Would you believe, there are more than two alternatives here?
“Most of those Poles are dead or in their 70s.”
True. But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a good thing, an opening to further acts of amity between these two ancient countries. Nobody would be forcibly relocated. No call for bilingual signs. Just a friendly invite.
Can’t say as I blame them. My paternal grandfather was a tailor’s apprentice in Odessa. When WW I broke out, rather than going to fight for the Czar, he ran to America and never looked back. “Iz faran genug tzurus in velt,” he probably said (enough trouble in the world, with the double entendre on the word “Czar,” which sounds like “tzar,” or trouble, in Yiddish).
Putin identifies as Catherine the Great, even though he’s biologically male. So maybe he can GFHS and leave peaceable people alone.
There weren’t any neo nazis except in the Russian army with the Wagner group
Well, if it is something like Germans from Wroclaw who can live, work or stay in the area, all of that will happen when uk9gets into the EU
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