More from 4.7 million Ukrainian refugees have fled their country 50 days after the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to the UNHCR UN for Refugees (UNHCR).
Specifically, the UNHCR has recorded 4,736,471 refugees until today, Thursday, according to the APE BPE, which is invoked by the French Agency. The last 24 hours 79,962 people fled the war-torn country.
Almost it 90% of these refugees are women and children – It is recalled that the Ukrainian authorities do not allow men to leave the country, as long as they are at an age that allows them to carry weapons.
According to International Organization for Migration (IOM), approx 215,000 Non-Ukrainian people have also left the country, often having difficulty returning to their countries of origin.
At the same time, the IOM calculates the number of internally displaced persons in 7.1 million.
In total, therefore, more than 12 million people have been forced to flee their homes either crossing the border to reach neighboring countries or finding refuge in other areas within the Ukraine.
Before him warthe country’s population was more than 37 million people in the territories controlled by Kyiv – excluding Crimea annexed in 2014 by Russia, nor the eastern regions which came under the control of pro-Russian separatists the same year.
Europe has not experienced such a wave of refugees since World War II, according to AFP.
Poland
It is worth mentioning that, according to the same sources, the Poland hosts by far the largest number of Ukrainian refugees.
From 24 February to 12 April, 2,694,090 of them have entered this country, according to UNHCR data.
Many of them then travel to other European countries.
Poland had about 1.5 million Ukrainians migrant workers, before the war.
Source: News Beast
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