2.9 mn Ukrainian refugees move on from border states: UN
Gulf Times
UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo
The United Nations said Friday that, of the more than 6.6 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries, 2.9 million have moved on to other European nations.
Refugees, the vast majority women and children, have poured across Ukraine's borders since the Russian invasion on February 24.
The figure from the UN refugee agency UNHCR gives a picture of how many have stayed in the first country they entered and how many have headed on elsewhere as the displacement crisis triggered by the war spreads across the continent.
"According to the latest data we have available... 2.9 million refugees have moved beyond countries neighbouring Ukraine," UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo told a briefing in Geneva.
