“Lithuanian authorities are doing their best to help Ukraine, which is defending Russia’s military aggression, and its citizens fleeing the war,” said Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite, who discussed the situation of Ukrainian refugees with Lithuanian EU Commissioner for the Environment Virgin Sinkevich. delegation.
She is pleased that Lithuanian society has also been actively involved in the accommodation of refugees.
Sinkevich, for his part, acknowledged that EU member states hosting Ukrainian refugees will have to look for long-term additional solutions to provide them with housing, employment, social needs and other issues.
There are currently three Ukrainian refugee registration centers in Lithuania: Alytus, Marijampole and Vilnius. Refugees are also registered in the territorial divisions of the Migration Department, but next week three more registration centers are planned to start operating – in Kaunas, Klaipeda and Siauliai.
CONTEXT:
In the two weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, more than two million people have fled Ukraine, shows Data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In total, experts estimate that the crisis in Ukraine could leave 12 million people homeless. Latvia going to host 10,000 potential Ukrainian refugees.
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