About 1.2 million Ukrainians now work in Poland,

About 1.2 million Ukrainians now work in Poland, according to Polish Central Bank figures cited in an Associated Press feature on Ukraine’s labor migration. Monthly “average wages are about three times higher than in Ukraine, around $1,050,” according to the report from Teresin, 55 km west of Warsaw. The story features Andriy Lytvynenko, a Ukrainian war veteran who works in a supermarket warehouse where 43% of the 600 workers are Ukrainians. Lesya Benko, 25, a headset sales manager in Warsaw, tells the AP she runs into so many Ukrainians — in stores, coffee shops and offices — that sometimes “you can’t tell if you are in Ukraine or Poland.”