Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has said his country will take care of “wives and children” fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has led some 3 million Ukrainians to seek refuge in the eastern part of the EU.
Fiala, who traveled to Kyiv earlier this week with his Polish and Slovenian counterparts to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, added that the Czech Republic could face further arrivals of refugees from Ukraine.
As men of conscription age are not allowed to leave Ukraine, mainly women and children have crossed into the European Union at border crossings in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
“I have informed Ukrainian friends that we will take care of their wives and children,” Fiala wrote on Twitter.
“The speed and magnitude of the refugee wave is incomparable to previous waves, but the Czech Republic can (handle it).”
Echoing the concerns of other leaders in the region, Fiala said countries hosting large numbers of refugees should receive EU financial support, but opposed quotas.
“We do not want the EU to introduce quotas but to have economic solidarity with the countries most affected by the refugee wave,” he said.
Poland, which shares a border of about 500 kilometers (310 miles) with Ukraine, accounts for more than 2 million of the refugee arrivals.
The deputy mayor of Przemysl, a town near Poland’s busiest crossing with Ukraine, said the flow of refugees had slowed, but warned that further Russian military strikes in western Ukraine could quickly change the situation.
“Most of the people who left eastern Ukraine are now in western Ukraine awaiting further developments,” said Deputy Mayor Boguslaw Swiezy.
“Any nervousness in western Ukraine will increase the flow of people coming to Poland,” Swiezy added.
While Russian forces have suffered heavy casualties and their advance has been largely halted, cities have been besieged and in recent days have intensified rocket attacks on scattered targets in western Ukraine, far from the main battlefields on the north and east.
Source: Capital
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