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Jan Strupczewski

Lithuania calls on EU to provide cash for Ukrainian refugees

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian refugees from Mariupol region board a bus bound for Poland, at a registration and humanitarian aid center for internally displaced people, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Lithuanian Finance Minister Gintare Skaiste urged the European Union on Monday to set up a fund that would help countries welcoming thousands of Ukrainian refugees manage the financial burden, just like the EU did for Turkey in 2016.

The United Nations estimates that some 6.5 million Ukrainians have left their country since the Russian invasion started on Feb 24th. Most of them, some 3.5 million, have entered Poland, and almost a million went to Romania.

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