War in Ukraine: Over 4.2 million refugees – 90% women and children

More than 4.2 million Ukrainian refugees left the country after the invasion of the country ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, according to data from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

According to a telegram from the EIA, cited by the French Agency, the competent UN agency recorded 4,215,047 Ukrainian refugees, 38,646 more than yesterday’s count.

About it 90% of those who left Ukraine are women and childrenas the Ukrainian authorities do not allow men of conscription age to leave the country.

The United Nations International Organization for Migration said about 205,500 non-Ukrainians had also left the country and sometimes have difficulty moving to their country of origin.

After all, the UN estimates in approx 6.5 million the number of internally displaced people.

Overall, this is over 10 million peoplethat is, for more than a quarter of the population, who have fled their homes either crossing the border to seek refuge in neighboring countries or fleeing to other parts of Ukraine.

Prior to the conflict, Ukraine had more than 37 million inhabitants in Kyiv-controlled territories – not including Russia (southern) annexed by Russia in 2014, or pro-Russian separatists in the east. from the same year.

According to Unicef, more than half of the 7.5 million children the country counts are either internally displaced or refugees.

It is worth mentioning that the Poland has accepted more than half of all refugees who have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Nearly 6 in 10 Ukrainian refugees have entered Poland, according to the same sources.

The number of refugees who arrived in Greece from Ukraine amounts to 16,431, according to an information from the Ministry of Civil Protection on Saturday. Of these, the 5,036 are minors.

Europe has never seen such an influx of refugees since World War II.

Source: News Beast

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