REUTERS
Around a million Ukrainians who live and work in Poland send some PLN 20 billion back home every year, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has said, according to Radio Poland.
Speaking during the ninth Europe-Ukraine Forum in the central Polish city of Lodz, Waszczykowski said: "More than a million Ukrainians living in Poland transfer around PLN 10 billion annually to Ukraine through official banking channels alone," Radio Poland reports.
Such workers hand over the same amount again in cash while visiting their families in Ukraine, Waszczykowski added.
"This means that in the past year, according to the National Bank of Poland, as a result of working in Poland, Ukrainian citizens transferred [the equivalent of] around EUR 5 billion. This is an important form of support for the Ukrainian economy."