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#Ukraine_Refugees: The EU has revised its estimates of the expected number of Ukrainian refugees. The figures will be double what was previously estimated and may reach up to 5 million people. This is almost 12% of the Ukrainian population and 5 times more than during ⤵️
the 2015 refugee crisis. The refugee crises orchestrated last year by the Lukashenko regime on the border with Lithuania and Poland seem nothing compared to the exodus of the Ukrainian population driven by Russian military aggression. Moscow is trying to get some of these ⤵️
flows to Belarus and Russia by offering six "green corridors" with exits to the east. It seems that Russia competes for the Ukrainian population that is currently fleeing to the West.
#Ukraine_Refugees: This post needs important clarifications. The absolute majority of Ukrainian refugees leave or plan to leave Moldova for EU states from Iasi airport in Romania or via land transport. Only ~2,000 people applied for asylum in Moldova.⤵️
The country is a temporary location for an following transfer to the EU.
Unlike the Moldovan destination, the EU states are more tempting for Ukrainian refugees, who will have the right to be hired immediately after arrival in the EU and integrate their children into the educational process in the EU host countries. (Poland, Slovakia and others) .
