Filippo Grandi wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: “We will keep helping Kraków in every possible way and to advocate for more international support for Poland."
He said that Kraków had received 150,000 people displaced by the war in Ukraine, while its own population totals 800,000.
He added that he had expressed to Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski “our respect for his city’s extraordinary generosity.”
Majchrowski and Grandi have discussed the city’s assistance to refugees from Ukraine and how the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) can aid these efforts, Kraków City Hall announced on its website on Wednesday.
The UN agency is planning to provide EUR 300 per person in financial assistance as well as share information and help identify people with special needs, Kraków officials said.
The UNHCR will also open an office in Kraków, reporters were told.
The number of Ukrainians in the historic southern Polish city has jumped from 60,000 before the outbreak of war to 210,000 at the end of March, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
They have been provided with accommodation in local hotels, hostels and welcome centres, while many residents have also opened their own homes to war refugees, according to PAP.
More than 5,000 refugee children and teenagers are already enrolled in the city's schools and kindergartens, officials told reporters.
Wednesday is day 35 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Poland on Wednesday reported it had welcomed 2.37 million refugees fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine.
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda this month signed into law a measure to offer wide-ranging support to Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasion of their country, which began on February 24.
The measure grants them legal residence in Poland and ensures access to education, healthcare and social benefits.
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Source: PAP, krakow.pl