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Since February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, a total of 5.98 million people have crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border into Poland, the Border Guard (SG) tweeted on Friday morning.

According to the SG, on Thursday Border Guard officers carried out around 24,300 border checks on people entering Poland from Ukraine, and by 7:00 a.m. on Friday the number of arrivals had reached around 6,300 people.

The Border Guard also said that nearly 4.2 million people had left Poland for Ukraine since the beginning of the war. On Thursday, around 25,800 people crossed the border from Poland to Ukraine.