Number Of Ukraine Refugees Passes Worst-Case U.N. Estimate
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The U.N. estimates the war has displaced 6.5 million people within the country and stranded more than 12 million people in areas under attack.
The number of people who have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded has surpassed 4 million, the United Nations reported Wednesday as shelling continued in places where Moscow had vowed to ease its military operations.
"I do not know if we can still believe the Russians," refugee Nikolay Nazarov, 23, said as he crossed Ukraine's border into Poland with his wheelchair-bound father.
Despite Russia's announcement during talks on Tuesday that its forces would ease their assault near Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and elsewhere, Nazarov said he expects "more escalation" in the country's east, including the city he and his father fled.
