Associated Press reports from Brussels that European Union interior ministers are gathering Sunday for emergency talks on how to cope with an influx of refugees from conflict-hit Ukraine as tens of thousands of people flee across the border into Poland, Hungary, Romania, and elsewhere.
The U.N. refugee agency, the UNHCR, estimates that over 200,000 people displaced by the fighting in Ukraine have fled the country and that up to four million could flee if the fighting spreads. Poland said Saturday that over 100,000 people had entered from Ukraine in the previous 48 hours alone.
At a meeting in Brussels, the ministers will examine ways to shelter people, how to manage the security challenges that the conflict poses to the EU’s external borders, and what kind of humanitarian support can be provided to Ukraine.
Those arriving at the borders are chiefly women, children, and the elderly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has banned the departure of men aged between 18 to 60 so they can take up arms against Russian forces.
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