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677,000 refugees have fled Ukraine: UN
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GENEVA, 02 March 2022, (TON): The United Nations said “some 677,000 refugees have fled the conflict in Ukraine for safety in neighbouring countries, while around a million people are estimated to be internally displaced.”
The UN Refugee Agency chief Filippo Grandi said the numbers of people on the move was extremely worrying, as Russian troops pound cities in eastern Ukraine, on day six of Moscow's invasion.
Grandi told a press conference in Geneva that the latest figure he had was 677,000 people who had fled from Ukraine to neighbouring countries.
He said "we are looking at what could become Europe's largest refugee crisis this century.”
Grandi said that around half had fled to Poland, whilst roughly 90,000 had reached Hungary, 60,000 Moldova, 50,000 Slovakia and 40,000 Romania.
At an earlier press conference, Shabia Mantoo, a spokeswoman for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said the numbers were exponentially increasing.
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