Poland estimates that almost 9 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed its border since the start of the war

More than 1.5 million people from Ukraine remain in the territory

MADRID, 2 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Polish authorities have indicated this Monday that the number of Ukrainian refugees who have crossed the border into Polish territory since the start of the war is around nine million.

The Polish Border Guard has indicated in a statement that until January 1, 2023, at least 8.8 million people have entered Polish territory, although that same day some 7,200 people left the territory to go back to Ukraine.

Since last February 24, the date on which the Russian invasion began, more than 7 million people have tried to return to Ukrainian territory after having left the country due to the increase in hostilities.

"On January 1, members of the Border Guard detected 9,800 attempts to cross the border in the direction of Poland from Ukraine. As of February 24, 2022, the number has risen to 8.8 million," the entity said in a message released. via Twitter.

Senior Russian officials, however, have attributed this increase in the flow of migration to the "actions of the West." The deputy and president of the information policy commission of the Russian Senate, Alexei Pushkov, has indicated that this is due to "every war started or provoked by Western countries."

"All the new waves of refugees affect Europe as wars like those in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine start," he said, according to information from the TASS news agency.

Pushkov has thus stated that France "has already given in to so much pressure", while "the United Kingdom will not be able to face the problem even after having abandoned the European Union and its migratory quotas".