According to its website, UNHCR has registered 3,725,806 people who have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24. This represented an increase of over 50,000 refugees compared to the previous day.
According to the UN, over ten million people in Ukraine have had to leave their homes. According to this, 6.5 million people currently live in Ukraine as internally displaced persons.
According to the United Nations, about 90 percent. refugees from Ukraine are women and children. The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF assumes that there are 1.5 million underage refugees from a war-torn country alone.
Before the Russian aggression, around 37 million people lived in Ukraine – not counting the Crimea peninsula on the Black Sea, annexed by Russia in 2014, and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country.
Poland has definitely received the greatest number of refugees from Ukraine. According to UNHCR, more than 2.2 million people from Ukraine have arrived in the neighboring country since the invasion began. About 200,000 people took advantage of the free offer of Polish railways for Ukrainian refugees to travel to other countries. Even before the outbreak of the war, about 1.5 million Ukrainians lived in Poland.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have also fled across the border to Romania and Moldova since the invasion began. According to UNHCR, Hungary admitted over 336,000 refugees from Ukraine by Thursday, and Slovakia over 263,000 by then.
In Germany, the number of refugees from Ukraine has reportedly exceeded 300,000. Reem Alabali-Radovan, the commissioner for integration of the German federal government, assigned this number to the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Saturday edition). On Friday morning, the German Ministry of the Interior reported 253,157 registered refugees.
UNHCR on Tuesday put the number of people seeking refuge in Russia at 271,254. In addition, some 113,000 arrived in Russia in the three days before the war broke out. people from the pro-Russian separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. Moscow announced on Friday that Russia adopted nearly 420,000. refugees from Ukraine, including 88 thousand. children and 9 thousand. foreigners.