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Around 1.43 million Ukrainians have fled to Poland since invasion – Border Guard

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Reuters
Published: Mar 10, 2022, 07:38 GMT+00:00

WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish Border Guard said on Thursday that 1.43 million people have entered Poland from Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 24.

People fleeing Russian invasion of Ukraine at the train station in Przemysl

WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish Border Guard said on Thursday that 1.43 million people have entered Poland from Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 24.

The Border Guard said in a tweet that on Wednesday around 117,600 people crossed the border. As of 0600 GMT on Thursday around 22,000 people had crossed.

(Reporting by Alan Charlish and Joanna Plucinska; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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