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Ukraine refugee numbers reach 2.5 million, many children, UN says
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No less than 2.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded late final month as of Friday, in accordance with Filippo Grandi, the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees.
That quantity contains greater than 1 million youngsters.
Grandi mentioned the group additionally estimates that about two million folks have been displaced inside Ukraine. “Thousands and thousands compelled to go away their properties by this mindless battle,” he tweeted Friday morning.
Ukrainian refugees wait at Przemysl practice station, southeastern Poland, on Friday, March 11, 2022. 1000’s of individuals have been killed and greater than 2.3 million have fled the nation since Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
(AP Picture/Petros Giannakouris)
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The Worldwide Group for Migration mentioned that round 1.5 million of the refugees have gone to Poland whereas others have fled to Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Refugees wait in a crowd for transportation after fleeing from the Ukraine and arriving on the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Picture/Markus Schreiber, File)
Some refugees have reported seeing Russian troops goal fleeing civilians.
“The Russians promised to supply a (humanitarian) hall, which they didn’t adjust to. They had been capturing civilians,” Ihor Diekov, who crossed the Irpin River outdoors Kyiv with others on the picket planks of a makeshift bridge after Ukrainians blew up the concrete span to gradual the Russian advance, mentioned. “That’s completely true. I witnessed it. Individuals had been scared.”
Refugees stand in a gaggle after fleeing the battle from neighboring Ukraine on the border crossing in Palanca, Moldova, Thursday, March 10, 2022.
(AP Picture/Sergei Grits)
He mentioned he heard gunshots and noticed lifeless our bodies on the highway.
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“Sure, I noticed corpses of civilians,” refugee Ilya Ivanov, who fled from Sumy, mentioned. “They shoot at civilians with machine weapons.”
The Ukrainian authorities has accused the Russians of violating short-term ceasefires that the nations had agreed to with a view to let civilians go away besieged areas by way of humanitarian corridors.