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Poland open to everyone fleeing Russian aggression – official

Poland welcomes all those who are fleeing Russian aggression, the Polish head of the national security department said on Monday in response to a feature by BBC World news service.

“Dear @BBCWorld, Poland is accepting everybody who is fleeing Russian war against Ukraine. We are helping everybody who escapes the Russian threat and arrives at the Polish border crossing. Propagating such narratives means spreading disinformation. **STOP** DISINFORMATION!”, Stanislaw Zaryn wrote on Twitter.

He also posted a short BBC World video, which features a statement of a Nigerian student, describing how he was treated when he crossed the Ukrainian border to Poland. “They were just so heartless … they treated us like animals,” he said.

Later on Monday, Krzysztof Szczerski, Poland’s ambassador at the UN, told an extraordinary session of the UN General Assembly on the war in Ukraine that in the face of one of the largest humanitarian crises since World War Two, Poland’s borders are open to all who are fleeing Russia’s aggression.

He added that reports of discriminatory practices on the Polish-Ukrainian border were a total lie and a terrible insult to Poland.

Szczerski pointed out that the number of refugees from Ukraine who had entered Poland, so far, had reached around 300,000, including citizens from 125 countries.

He added that Poland had sent special trains to evacuate the elderly and mothers with young children, and that the first children of Ukrainian refugees had already been born in Poland.

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