O United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported this Thursday (17) that more than 3.16 million people have fled Ukraine towards other countries since the beginning of Russia’s invasion on February 24, with more than half (1.91 million) having left for to Poland.
Also according to the UN agency’s daily bulletin, 282,000 refugees entered Hungary, 228,000 in Slovakia, 168,000 in Russia. In addition, Romania and Moldova received tens of thousands of people from Ukraine.
UNHCR still estimates that the number of internally displaced people within the former Soviet republic has exceeded 2 million. The organization predicts that the number of refugees will rise to 4 million, while the number of people who have had to leave their homes and go to other regions of Ukraine will jump to close to 7 million.
The migration crisis resulting from the Russian invasion is the worst in Europe since the end of the Second World War, surpassing even the 2.4 million refugees registered in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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