More than one million refugees could arrive in the EU in the event of an escalation of the situation in Ukraine, European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas has said
“According to estimates, between 20,000 and more than one million refugees could arrive”, – the politician told Welt.
Schinas also said that the European Commission was “preparing for different scenarios”, contingency plans were being drawn up and a task force had been established.
Earlier, the head of the Luhansk people’s republic Leonid Pasechnik in an official address on the anniversary of the Chernukhin-Debaltsev operation said that Luhansk and Donetsk are ready at any time to give a decent response to the Kiev punishers