UN: 10 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine because of the Russian war

Tens of millions of people have fled their homes because of the disaster war waged by Russiahe says UN.

In particular, in a post today on Twitter, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grady, stressed that “the war in Ukraine is so devastating that 10 million people have fled their homes or moved into it. Ukraine, or fled abroad. “

He said yesterday that the Ukraine refugee crisis was the fastest growing refugee crisis in 40 years: 2.5 million people fled to neighboring countries between February 24 and March 10, 1.5 million in Poland alone. That is more than double the number of Rohingya Muslims expelled from Myanmar in 2017.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the number could reach 4 million, which would be equivalent to the second largest group of modern refugees, after the Venezuelan refugees.

The European Union estimates that 5-7 million Ukrainians may be forced to flee their country, which equates to the number of people who fled to escape the bloodshed in Syria. Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev, said on March 10 that half of the capital’s population had left. Given the rate of displacement, Europe is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II.


Source: News Beast

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