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Lhe Polish railway company PKP decided to offer free trains to Ukrainians going to big cities in Germany, the company announced in a statement.
As of Wednesday, March 9, seats in the second class of nine trains connecting Warsaw, Przemysl via Krakow and Gdynia daily with Berlin and Frankfurt will be free for Ukrainian citizens, it said.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, which generated a huge flow of refugees to Poland, the railway operator increased the number of trains leaving from the Ukrainian border and offered free transport for people from that country.
They estimate that more than 300,000 Ukrainians have benefited from the initiative since February 26.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Szefernaker told public television on Thursday that refugees often want to continue their journey to other European countries.
We work with our partners in the European Union to facilitate this transport,” he said.
The Polish border corps said on Thursday that the number of people arriving from Ukraine since the beginning of the war reached 1,430,000. Before the conflict, Poland was already home to an estimated one and a half million Ukrainians.
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