By Monday morning, Poland had admitted almost 1.76 million refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The NATO and European Union member has overwhelmingly responded with assistance to Ukrainians escaping their country after the Russian attack.
Initially, Poland's authorities set up nine reception centres for people fleeing Ukraine. These sites, designed to provide aid to refugees, were located in the country's eastern Lubelskie and Podkarpackie regions, which border Ukraine.
Just hours after the invasion started on February 24, Polish volunteers mounted a vast Ukraine relief effort, with the system often based on the goodwill of private citizens.
"During weekends we rather go somewhere to sightsee, but now we are here because we think it's more important to be here now than to do things we like," said Agata Barszcz, a volunteer who came with her family to help refugees at a bus station in the eastern Polish city of Lublin.
A banner in support of Ukraine in the eastern Polish city of Lublin. Photo: Danuta Isler/Radio Poland
"My son even asked me: 'Mom, why am I feeling so well inside being here?' And I said: 'Son, that's because you feel that you are doing something important,'" Barszcz told Radio Poland's Danuta Isler.
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