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• 3 Mar 2022 7:21 AM
• Hungary Around the Clock

Members of the public via a Facebook group created to help people fleeing Ukraine on February 24 have already accommodated an estimated 10,000-15,000 refugees, news service 24 reports.

Alexandra Gregor, the creator and one of the chief administrators of the Facebook group, told the website that the group attracted 100,000 members in its first four days.

The group offers accommodation, transportation and other assistance to refugees fleeing the war.

An increasing number of refugees are taking trains to Budapest, arriving at Nyugati station about once an hour.

An estimated 105,000 refugees have fled to Hungary from Ukraine since February 24, according to police records.



Update from Hungary Matters - Chief Security Advisor: 104,000 Arrivals From Ukraine so Far

Some 104,000 people have arrived in Hungary from Ukraine so far, with the number of those directly fleeing war estimated at 80,000, György Bakondi, the prime minister’s chief security advisor said on Wednesday.

Hungary is also sending “unprecedented amounts of food and fuel” to Transcarpathia, the western Ukrainian region with a sizeable ethnic Hungarian population, he said.

The UN is projecting some 250,000 refugees arriving to Hungary before the end of the war, he noted.


MTI Photo: Zoltán Balogh

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