Hungary expects 'wave' of refugees next week

Hungary expects 'wave' of refugees next week

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that he expects to see a "bigger wave of refugees" arriving in the country next week from Ukraine.

Qazet.az reports that speaking in a video posted to Facebook during a visit to a crossing point near Hungary's border with Ukraine and Romania, Orban said more border guards would be posted there next week to handle the increased influx.

As of 14 March, some 263,888 Ukrainians had crossed the border into Hungary, according to the UN's human rights watchdog.

On Wednesday, an advisor to Orban told Hungarian media that that officials expected to receive over 900,000 refugees by the end of the war.