The number of refugees in Germany reached a new high in mid-2023, the federal government stated in response to a parliamentary question from the far-left Die Linke (The Left) party. About 3.48 million refugees with varying residency permits were living in the country at the end of June, or about 60,000 more than at the end of 2022, the figure released on Friday showed. The information was first reported by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. The number of refugees was particularly high in 2022, when hundreds of thousands of war refugees from Ukraine sought shelter in Germany after Russia l…