Ukrainian refugees now make up “2 percent of the population” in Lithuania, said Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė, as she called on Brussels to provide financial assistance.
“In Estonia it is about 2.5 percent and in Poland about 6–7 percent, so the numbers for supporting them are quite big,” she told Reuters.
The average cost of maintaining a refugee stood at about 500 euros per person each month, Skaistė said.
As a solution, she proposed using the same mechanism as during the refugee crisis of 2015, when the European Union provided financial assistance to Turkey, which welcomed millions of refugees.
Over 53,000 refugees have now arrived in Lithuania from Ukraine, according to official statistics.
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