The number of displaced Ukrainians has increased by nearly a half-million in three days, bringing the total number of refugees to nearly 1.5 million, a United Nations agency estimates.
More than 1.45 million people have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion began last week, the International Organization for Migration confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Saturday. One-third of these displacements occurred in the past three days amid the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’s Thursday announcement that the number of Ukrainians crossing to neighboring countries had reached 1 million.
“Unless there is an immediate end to the conflict, millions more are likely to be forced to flee Ukraine,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.
POLAND AND HUNGARY ACCEPT HUNDREDS OF DISABLED UKRAINIAN ORPHANS
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the largest refugee movement in Europe since World War II. Poland has accepted the majority of the displaced, with Polish Border Guard saying it has let 787,000 Ukrainians through.
Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova have welcomed the rest, while over 50,000, mostly from the separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, went east into Russia, according to U.N. data.
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The influx shows no signs of abating. During the first seven hours of Saturday, 33,700 people crossed into Poland, a third higher than in the same time frame the day before, the country’s border statistics showed.
