During the March meeting of the Bolesławiec County Council, the issue of war refugees returned. County head Tomasz Gabrysiak informed councillors how many escapees from attacked Ukraine are being cared for by the local governments in our county:
- Bolesławiec – 55 people,
- Warta Bolesławiecka Commune – 37,
- Gromadka Commune – 19,
- Osiecznica Commune – 200,
- Nowogrodziec Commune – 44,
- Bolesławiec County – 196.
(Data as of 28 March).
As the county head explained, the county has been covering the refugees’ accommodation and food costs since the first days of March. Half of the Ukrainians cared for by the county government were sent here by the Lower Silesian Voivode.
How many more refugees there will be is unknown. The county head said:
There has not been a major wave for several or a dozen days; there was a time when 30–40 people arrived each day. Things are a little calmer now.
And he immediately added: – But everything depends on how far the Russian tanks advance.
Next, the head of the Bolesławiec County Board shared his estimates—emphasising that they were merely rough guesses—regarding the number of Ukrainians in our county. According to the county head, around 2,000–3,000 refugees alone may have arrived here. And, as we previously reported, as recently as December last year, before the outbreak of the war, around 8,000 Ukrainians were working here. (This currently gives a total of approximately 11,000).
There are no reliable figures for now. More will be known once all the refugees have applied for PESEL identification numbers.