The two new services are to be in the southeastern city of Rzeszów, and in Poznań in the country’s west. The exact timing has yet to be established.

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, announced the plans on Friday, saying the new facilities are in response to the increased number of Ukrainians in the country and said new consulates would also be opened in Romania, Slovakia, Germany, and France.

A Ukrainian official recently put the emigre population in Poland at around 950,000, down from 1.5 million in the first months of the war.

In late November, Sybiha said Kyiv had requested from Poland the use of the former Russian consulate in Poznań, which was closed down by Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in October over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The two new consulates will complement the four existing ones in Gdańsk, Wrocław, Kraków and Lublin in addition to a consular section of the Warsaw embassy.