Passenger traffic across the western border from 17 to 23 December increased by more than a quarter: on departure from Ukraine – from 243 thousand to 301 thousand people, while on entry – from 231 thousand to 302 thousand, the State Border Service reported on Facebook.
Thus, according to the department, this week the outflow of people from the country, which has lasted five weeks in a row, gave way to a small influx of one thousand people.
Polish Border Guard Service also recorded a net inflow to Ukraine for the last seven days – 15 thousand people, whereas during the previous five weeks of outflow it amounted to 36 thousand people in total.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland increased from 153 thousand people to 184 thousand, while the return flow from Poland to Ukraine – from 149 thousand to 199 thousand people.
As a whole from the beginning of the war 8,638 million people arrived in Poland from the Ukraine, whereas in the opposite direction there were 6,814 million people.
According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, the number of cars crossed the western border of Ukraine increased from 127 thousand to 139 thousand, whereas the number of vehicles with humanitarian cargoes reduced from 643 to 593.
The agency warned that queues had increased in recent days, especially at the Polish border, due to the growth of passenger traffic and bad weather conditions.
As reported, since May 10, the flow to enter Ukraine through its western border every day almost a month exceeded the flow to leave. The net inflow during this time amounted to 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 for the outflow was massive shelling of the energy infrastructure. In total, since that time, the net outflow has been 117,000 people.
According to the UNHCR data as of December 20, a total of 16.595 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war (not including the flow of people into the country), of which 8.350 million left for Poland, 2.852 million for Russia (data has not been updated since October 3), Hungary – 1.930 million, Romania – 1.696 million, Slovakia – 1.024 million, Moldova – 726.7 thousand people, Belarus – 16.7 thousand.
At the same time, according to the UN data, 8.711 million people arrived in Ukraine from February 28 to December 20 (excluding Hungary, Russia and Belarus).
Passenger traffic through the western border of Ukraine, ths.
Date from Ukraine incl. Poland to Ukraine incl. Ukrainians number of cars humanitarian trucks, pcs.
23.dec 57 36 50 47 21 87
22.dec 43 25 44 41 20 90
21.Dec 46 27 42 38 20 108
20.Dec 38 22 35 31 19 58
19.Dec 35 21 39 36 18 76
18.Dec 39 23 48 44 20 84
17.Dec 43 25 44 39 21 90
16.Dec 39 24 34 30 19 118
15.Dec 37 23 34 31 19 99
14.Dec 35 20 30 27 18 55
13.Dec 31 18 30 26 18 78
12.Dec 30 19 33 31 17 69
11.Dec 32 19 34 31 16 59
10.Dec 39 24 36 32 20 165
Data: State Border Service
