Berlin asked Warsaw to stop sending trains with Ukrainian refugees to Germany. This was announced on March 14 on the air of the Polish TV channel TVN24 by Deputy Interior Minister of Poland Paweł Szefernaker, Pledge Time reports.
As he explained, the scale of forced migrants from Ukraine took the countries of Europe by surprise.
“Last night I spoke with the German Interior Ministry, where we were asked to suspend special trains that go to Germany, because there is already a bottleneck situation there,” he said in an interview with a journalist.
The deputy minister noted that 28,000 people left Poland by train in three days. 1.5 million Ukrainians remain in the country.
“We must all support each other, I count on this European solidarity,” Szefernaker stressed.
On March 12, the French authorities announced that more than 10,000 Ukrainians had entered the country. The country can accept no more than 25 thousand people.
On March 6, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in total, more than 1.2 million refugees have arrived in the territory of the EU countries since the start of the military operation in Ukraine. Most of the refugees are in border countries, including Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova. It is noted that over 1 million people arrived in Poland alone.
