More than 4.5M refugees left Ukraine – UN
Ukrinform reports this with reference to data provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as of April 9.
Since February 24, 4,503,954 people have left Ukraine. In particular, Poland has taken in 2,593,902 refugees, Romania - 686,232, Hungary - 419,101, Moldova - 410,882, Russia - 404,418, Slovakia - 314,485, and Belarus - 19,096
According to UNHCR, more than 7.1 million Ukrainians are considered internally displaced, ie remained in the country but were forced to leave their homes.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.
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