Ukraine-Russia war, over 660,000 refugees fleeing the country: mostly women and children
For the past six days, I’ve been over 660,000 people left Ukraine, in desperation, looking for a safer place for themselves and their loved ones. In majority women and children, entire families have fled to neighboring countries after the Russian military intervention, UNHCR reports.
Shabia Mantoo, spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), during a briefing in Geneva said that the agency has news of people who wait over 60 hours to enter Polandwhile the queues bordering on Romania they are long up to 20 kilometers (translation by Luca Fratangelo and editing by Francesca Piscioneri).
Yesterday the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi announced the entry of more than 500,000 Ukrainians into Poland and in other neighboring countries, such as Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia.
An UNHCR official, Karolina Lindholm Billing, said: “There has been a lot of attention on those fleeing to neighboring countries, but it is important to remember that most of those affected are in Ukraine. We don’t have a precise figure yet on the number internally displaced people in Ukraine, but we estimate that it is about one million people“.
Meanwhile, the European authorities feared on 27 February at the end of a meeting of the Union’s interior ministers a Brussels directive which if activated, exceptionally and for the first time, would guarantee temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees for three years. It would not be, we read on International, in this way it is necessary for them to seek asylum, but Fr.they could move and work without problems within the European borders. The decision of the European council is expected on 3 March.
Ukraine, Draghi: “Serious refugee crisis, Italy on the front line”
“L‘Italy And’ engaged on the front line to support Ukraine from a humanitarian and migration point of view, in close coordination with European and international partners. The humanitarian situation in the country is increasingly serious “. These are the words of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, during the communications in the Senate on the developments of the Ukrainian crisis.
“The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has estimated in 18 million is the number of people who may need humanitarian aid in the coming months. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that internally displaced persons could reach figures between 6 and 7.5 million and refugees between 3 and 4 million “.
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