More than 3 million refugees fled Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion

the war in Ukraine It has caused three million refugees in 19 days, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported today.

“We have just received the latest figures and we can confirm that the mark of three million refugees has been exceeded,” IOM spokesman in Geneva, Paul Dillon, told the press, detailing that 157,000 of the refugees from Ukraine are nationals. from third countries.

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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has pointed out that nearly 90% of this exodus is made up of women and children.

According to the UNHCR, 1.8 million refugees are in Poland, 263,000 in Hungary, 213,000 in Slovakia, 142,000 in Russia, and several tens of thousands more have arrived in Romania and Moldova.

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UNHCR estimates that if the armed conflict continues, the number of refugees could exceed four million, and the number of internally displaced persons could reach 6.7 million.

The Ukrainian refugee crisis is the worst that Europe has experienced since the end of the Second World War, and one of the most serious today, where large exoduses have also been experienced in countries such as Venezuela (more than 6 million) and Syria ( 6.8 million).

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Source: Elcomercio

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