The number of civilians who fled Ukraine after nearly two weeks of Russian attacks reached 2.15 million on Wednesday, according to statistics updated daily by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
More than half of these refugees are in neighboring Poland, whose borders have been crossed by nearly 1.3 million Ukrainians, while another 203,000 have fled to Hungary, 153,000 to Slovakia, nearly 100,000 to Russia, 85,000 to Romania. and 82 thousand for Moldova.
“Tragically, if the war does not stop, many more families will be cruelly divided,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement. At the beginning of the conflict, the agency estimated that up to 4 million Ukrainians could flee to other countries, and another large number would move internally to other cities.
Grandi praised Europe’s response to the refugee crisis, the continent’s worst since World War II, although the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s together produced an exodus of some 2.4 million refugees. “It is imperative that the international community continue to support this refugee response and assist host communities, particularly in Moldova,” said the High Commissioner.
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