THE United Nations (UN) said this Friday (04) that more than 1.2 million people left the Ukraine because of the war and sought refuge in neighboring countries and elsewhere in Europe.
The number increases by the hour as Russia intensifies its military offensive against Ukrainian territory.
According to figures released by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 650,000 Ukrainians fled to Poland, 145,000 to Hungary, 103,000 to Moldova, 90,000 to Slovakia and 57,000 to Romania.
On the eastern side of the Ukrainian border – corresponding to the breakaway regions of Lugansk and Donetsk – 53,000 people crossed the border into Russia. From the north, 384 left the country via Belarus. Another 110,000 people went to other countries (which do not border Ukraine) in Europe.
The agency praised the European Union’s approval of the legal mechanism that offers temporary protection not only to Ukrainians, but also to third-country nationals who had resident or refugee status in Ukraine. It also called for protection to be extended to other people living in Ukraine without legal migration status and who cannot return to their countries, as well as to those without nationality (stateless persons).
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