Net outflow from Ukraine this week increased to 16 thousand people from 8 thousand a week earlier, the State Border Service reported on Facebook.
According to the Ministry, the flow on the way out of Ukraine from February 11 to 17 increased from 219 thousand to 225 thousand people, while on the way in – 211 thousand people.
The number of cars, according to the department, crossed the western border of Ukraine, also remained at the level of 118 thousand, whereas the number of vehicles with humanitarian cargos decreased from 464 to 452.
Polish State Border Service also fixed increase of the net outflow from Ukraine for the last seven days – up to 12 thousand people from 7 thousand people a week before.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland increased from 138 thousand people to 146 thousand, whereas the return flow from Poland to Ukraine – from 131 thousand to 134 thousand people.
In total, since the beginning of the war 9.899 million people arrived in Poland from the Ukraine, while 8.021 million people went in the opposite direction.
It was reported that since May 10, the flow into Ukraine through its western border every day for almost a month steadily exceeded the flow out. The net inflow during this time was 188 thousand people. In subsequent weeks there was no such unambiguous trend, except for the week of the new academic year, when net inflow was a record 47 thousand people.
In general, statistics showed a gradual return of Ukrainians to their homes: the net influx for the period from May 10 to September 23 was 409 thousand people.
For the first time since May 10, the number of those who left Ukraine in a week exceeded the number of those who entered at the end of September. At that time, the net outflow was 28 thousand people at once, and one of the possible reasons was a reaction to mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then the probable reason was massive shelling of the energy infrastructure. The outflow temporarily stopped in the second half of December and early January for the period of holidays, but from the second week of January it resumed, reaching a total of 193,000 since late September.
According to UNHCR data as of February 14, a total of 18.607 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war (not including the flow of people into the country), of which 9.604 million left for Poland, 2.852 million for Russia (data as of October 3), 2.216 million for Hungary, 1.967 million for Romania, 1.163 million for Slovakia, 770.3 thousand for Moldova and 16.7 thousand for Belarus.
At the same time, according to the UN data, 10.297 million people arrived in Ukraine from February 28, 2022 to February 14, 2023 (not including data of Hungary, Russia and Belarus).
Passenger traffic through the western border of Ukraine, thousand.
Date from Ukraine incl. to Poland to Ukraine incl. Ukrainians number of cars of humanitarian trucks, pcs.
17.Feb 34 21 31 28 17 46
16.Feb 35 21 29 26 18 48
15.Feb 31 18 28 24 17 65
14.Feb 31 19 28 25 17 67
13.Feb 31 19 30 27 16 97
12.Feb 33 20 33 30 16 61
11.Feb 30 17 32 28 17 68
10.Feb 34 21 30 27 18 78
09.Feb 32 20 28 25 17 51
08.Feb 31 18 29 25 17 82
07.Feb 29 17 27 24 17 79
06.Feb 27 16 29 27 15 65
05.Feb 31 21 33 30 16 55
04.Feb 35 22 35 31 18 54
Data: State Border Service
