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Some 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago, and around two million more have been internally displaced by the "senseless" war, the United Nations said Friday.
Some 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago, and another two million have been internally displaced by the war, the United Nations said Friday (March 11).
The number of people fleeing Ukraine since the Russian invasion began has probably now reached 2.1-2.2 million people, the head of the United Nation's refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday (March 9). Matthew Saltmarsh, a spokesperson for the UNHCR, spoke to FRANCE 24.
More than two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion less than two weeks ago, UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo says, while the International Red Cross describes an "apocalyptic" situation in the ukrainian city of Mariupol.
More than two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion less than two weeks ago, the United Nations said Tuesday (March 8). Poland alone has received nearly half of all those fleeing Ukraine, with Tuesday's figures showing that 1.2 million had crossed into the country in the past 13 days. FRANCE 24's Magdalena Chodownik tells us more, reporting from Przemysl.
Farmers in Ukraine, the bread basket of Europe, say they cannot begin sowing season until their fields are defined.
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