The net outflow from Ukraine, which lasted five weeks and stopped in the week before the Catholic Christmas, was replaced by a net inflow of 33,000 people in the last week of the year, including 29,000 in the first three days, the State Border Service said on Facebook.
According to the Department, the flow on the way out of Ukraine from December 24-30 decreased in comparison with the previous week from 301 thousand to 279 thousand people, while on the way in – from 302 thousand to 312 thousand people.
Polish State Border Service also recorded a net inflow to Ukraine for the last seven days – 35 thousand people compared with 15 thousand people a week earlier.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland reduced from 184 thousand people to 179 thousand, while the return flow from Poland to Ukraine increased from 199 thousand to 214 thousand people.
As a whole from the beginning of the war 8,817 million people arrived in Poland from Ukraine, whereas in the opposite direction there were 7,028 million people.
According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, the number of cars crossing the western border of Ukraine declined from 139 thousand to 123 thousand, while 593 to 428 vehicles with humanitarian cargoes crossed the border.
As reported, since May 10, the flow to enter Ukraine through its western border every day for almost a month exceeded the flow to leave. The net inflow during this time was 188,000 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 for the outflow was massive shelling of the energy infrastructure. In total, since then, the net outflow has been 84,000 people.
According to UNHCR data as of December 27, a total of 16.867 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war (not including the flow of people into the country), of which 8.507 million left for Poland, 2.852 million for Russia (data has not been updated since October 3), Hungary – 1.973 million, Romania – 1.738 million, Slovakia – 1.048 million, Moldova – 732.9 thousand people, Belarus – 16.7 thou
At the same time, according to the UN, from February 28 to December 27, 8.952 million people arrived in Ukraine (excluding Hungary, Russia and Belarus).
