Romania is showing an "extraordinary example of solidarity' in welcoming refugees fleeing Russia's 19-day old war on Ukraine, Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday.
During a visit to Bucharest, Di Maio expressed the Italian government's "closeness" to Romania.
"No European member state must be left to handle on its own the refugee emergency, which requires a joint response at European level," he stated.
A total of 2.8 million Ukrainians have now fled the Russian military onslaught, most of them to Poland (1.72 million) and to Hungary (255,000), Slovakia (205,000) and Moldova (107,000), according to the United Nations.
Romania, one of the EU's poorest countries, has taken in nearly 85,000 Ukrainian refugees to date, while Italy has welcomed around 35,000.
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