Of all countries, Poland spends the most on sheltering Ukrainians fleeing war, and that costs more than just military aid, the Financieele Dagblad reports. Accepting refugees from Ukraine has already cost Warsaw more than €8 billion, the daily reports show, citing data from the Institute of World Economy (IfW) in Kiel.
Second place in the ranking is occupied by Germany, which spent 7 billion euros.
Poland is the most generous
The newspaper reports that the reception of five million Ukrainian refugees has so far cost European countries a total of 27 billion euros. The Dutch daily compares Polish aid, estimated at 8 billion euros, with 500 million euros from the Netherlands.
More than five million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the war. Most of them, more than one and a half million, went to Poland
– points to the Financieele Dagblad.
— British deputy chief of defence: ‘Very few countries can claim to come close to as much as Poland has – and I want to underline that’
– Komorowski downplays Polish participation in helping Ukraine: we were not the first country to support Ukraine
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Source: wPolityce