So far, 24,949 war refugees from Ukraine have been registered in Lithuania, with nearly 11,000 minors among them, Lithuania’s statistics service said on Monday.
The Vilnius registration centre has so far registered the largest number of refugees, 8,725, followed by Alytus with 2,787, Klaipėda with 1,659, Kaunas with 1,593, Marijampolė with 1,279, and Šiauliai with 1,134.
Out of the ten territorial units of the Migration Department, the largest number of refugees has been registered by the Vilnius unit, 1,805, with another 1,397 registered by the Klaipėda unit. Nearly 1,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war have been registered in the Šiauliai and Kaunas units each.
Over the past 24 hours alone, 1,233 refugees have been registered, including 575 minors.
Of the total number of war refugees registered so far, 2,979 are children under the age of six, according to Statistics Lithuania.
Most of the incoming people have applied for a temporary residence permit on humanitarian grounds.
According to the United Nations, over 3.4 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, with a total of around 10 million people displaced from their homes.
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