LONDON
\nThe number of refugees pouring from Ukraine into Europe is expected to be three times larger than those who fled Syria for the continent in 2015-16, the EU\u2019s foreign affairs chief has warned.
\n\u201cWhen it was the Syria crisis in 2015 to 2016, we were talking about one-and-a-half million people. Now it\u2019s going to be much more,\u201d said Josep Borrell, adding that 1.5 million people had already crossed into the EU in the last week alone.
\n\u201cWe must mobilize all the resources of the EU to help those countries receiving people, all the countries bordering Ukraine. We will need more schools, more reception centers, more of everything.\u201d
\nBorrell said up to 5 million people could flee Ukraine to EU nations, with some 200,000 exiting for Poland and other nearby member states in the first 24 hours of the conflict.
\n\u201cWe very much fear there will be 5 million refugees in Europe. This is a reasonable estimate and unprecedented since the Second World War,\u201d he added.
\nBrussels has warned that \u201c18 million people will be hit by the conflict in Ukraine,\u201d almost half the country\u2019s population of 41 million, which would create an enormous emergency situation with extensive humanitarian demands.
\nThe UN Refugee Agency said it had recorded 1,735,068 refugees on Monday, with 200,000 more added since Sunday.
\nPoland is hosting the majority of the refugees, caring for 1 million of them. There are more than 180,000 in Hungary and 128,000 in Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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