The number of people from Ukraine in Brandenburg is slowly increasing. So far, however, only a few have been accommodated in the Brandenburg initial reception facility. Ten refugees are currently being accommodated said the head of Brandenburg’s central foreigners authority, Olaf Jansen, on Sunday of the German Press Agency. be underneath six people from Ukraine and four people who are foreigners with resident status in Ukraine. The federal police have not yet published any concrete figures. Brandenburg has the longest border of all federal states with Poland.
The initial reception center in Eisenhüttenstadt holds according to the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior initially 800 places for war refugees ready from Ukraine. “We can easily double that within 24 hours if necessary”, said Head Jansen. Most refugees traveled on to relatives or acquaintances, for example. He assumed that there will be more and more refugees who have residence status in Ukraine and who may apply for asylum in Germany.
Am Train station in Frankfurt (Oder) several Ukrainians arrived by train on Sunday. The federal police then checks, among other things, whether they have a biometric passport and can stay in the Schengen area for 90 days without a visa or not. There was one among them family of six. “We’re going to Berlin,” said 23-year-old Liubov from the Volyn region. They would have friends there. “We left Ukraine on the evening of February 25,” she said.
The city of Frankfurt (Oder) says it is ready to take in hundreds of refugees. “More preparations have been made than have happened at the moment,” said Mayor René Wilke (left). The city could record a four-digit number in an emergency.
Brandenburg Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) had said on Friday that his state was preparing for the Arrival of at least 10,000 refugees from Ukraine. (dpa)
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