Local officials are stocking up supplies for people fleeing energy-strapped Ukraine
Eastern European countries are girding for a new influx of Ukrainian refugees this winter, with Slovakia anticipating that hundreds of thousands people may arrive in the country in the coming months due to low temperatures and hostilities in Ukraine, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing local officials.
A Slovak government contingency plan envisages that about 700,000 refugees may pour into the country this winter, the report says.
“A large number of (Ukraine’s) internally displaced people are currently temporarily housed in conditions that are not suitable for the winter,” the document reads, according to Reuters, adding that the “further escalation of the conflict is also a risk.”
Moreover, European nations are said to be opening reception centers and stocking up products to get ready for a new refugee crisis.
In Hungary, Zsofia Dobis-Lucski, a spokesperson…
