Poland’s population rose 5% with influx of refugees | Rush Hour

Four weeks into the war in Ukraine, more than 3.5 million people have fled the country — the largest exodus of refugees in Europe since World War II — as Russian forces continue to batter Kyiv, Lviv, Mariupol and other important cities.

More than 2 million of those refugees have poured into Ukraine’s western neighbor, Poland, causing a 5% increase in the country’s total population since the war began.

“It was a bad situation. We didn’t have water, we didn’t have electricity, we slept and we didn’t know what would happen tomorrow,” said Elena, a woman who fled Kyiv for the safety of Poland.

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