1,600 refugees arrived in Záhony in two days!

Some 1,600 people fleeing the fighting in Ukraine have arrived in the eastern Hungarian border town of Záhony over the last two days, the town’s mayor said on Friday.

László Helmeczi told MTI that because the majority of the arrivals have already been taken to other parts of the country to stay with relatives or acquaintances, the local council only had to provide placement for 80 people, mainly women and children. The refugees have been placed in the local cultural centre, he said, adding that they were sleeping on mattresses donated by the locals and have received blankets from the Hungarian Red Cross.

One refugee woman who fled with her children from Tysaashvan (Tiszaásvány) said people in and around Uzhhorod (Ungvár)

were “very afraid” after hearing reports of Russian forces preparing to bomb the local airport.