More than 95,000 refugees have arrived in Germany from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion two weeks ago, according to Germany’s interior ministry.
The ministry says it has registered 95,913 refugees from Ukraine, but the actual number of incoming refugees could be significantly higher, an interior spokesperson told CNN Thursday.
German Federal Police are now carrying out ”intensified checks” at the border between Germany and Poland, where most Ukrainian refugees are coming from.
Germany’s capital Berlin has become a major hub for refugees from Ukraine, city mayor Franziska Giffey said Wednesday night.
Over the past three days more than 13,000 refugees arrived in Berlin by train or bus, said Giffey, adding that others fled from Ukraine by car.
Most refugees from Ukraine intend to stay in Berlin, but the city has asked other German federal states for help.
More than two million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
