U.S. to allocate additional $2.75B in response to humanitarian crisis - Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 5 visited a crossing on Poland's border with Ukraine where hundreds of thousands of people have been fleeing from advancing Russian forces.

Ukrinform reports this with reference to AFP News Agency.

Blinken also visited a cavernous Polish holding centre with around 3,000 refugees and said Washington was preparing to set aside another $2.75 billion for the humanitarian crisis.

"Poland is doing vital work in response to this crisis,” the state secretary said in the nearby city of Rzeszow.

The funds will be used to support those leaving Ukraine, and countries that accept them, after Russia began its invasion on February 24.

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