Mayor: Prague unable to take in more refugees from Ukraine

The mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, says the city does not have the capacity to take in any more potential refugees from Ukraine. He made the comment after a meeting of the city’s security council on Tuesday.

Prague has also called on the government to establish rules with regard to the distribution of refugees among all of Czechia’s regions.

A regional assistance centre for Ukrainians in Prague is currently processing several hundred people a day. It has dealt with over 100,000 since Russia launched its war on the country.

The Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, recently said the country would be only able to take in a limited number of additional refugees from Ukraine, if there were a fresh wave escaping the cold in their home country.