According to data from the language-learning app Duolingo, more than one million people have begun learning Ukrainian since February of last year. According to reports, there is still a lot of interest in learning Ukrainian, and the top three countries with the most Ukrainian language learners are Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
During the first nine months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 14,000 Ukrainian companies were reportedly started in neighboring Poland.Having overcome the odds of starting a business abroad, those Ukrainian entrepreneurs are now succeeding and making big and small contributions to their country’s war efforts.
One year after Russia began its full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainians and their supporters marched in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday. Almost a million Ukrainian refugees live in Poland.
In recent months, Poles have generously welcomed those fleeing the conflict in the neighboring Ukraine. For Poland, which has a population of approximately 38 million, however, taking in more than 3 million refugees is a significant problem. Other European countries are providing help, as Greg Flakus reports from Warsaw, but if the conflict lasts for a very long time, the burden may be too much for the Poles to bear
Thousands of migrants attempted to enter the EU with the help of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s government, drawing global media attention to the border between Belarus and Poland. The quarrel between Warsaw and Minsk over Poland’s policy of sheltering Belarusian political exiles lies at the heart of this problem
Thousands of refugees are still waiting in Belarus to enter the European Union through Poland, a crisis that has sharply divided Polish society between those who wish to help migrants and others who refuse to open their borders