U.N.: 6.5 Million People Displaced Inside Ukraine Due To War

The findings come in a paper issued Friday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The U.N. migration agency said Friday that nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million who have already fled the country.

That means that around a quarter of Ukraine's 44 million people have been forced from their homes.

The estimates from the International Organization for Migration suggests Ukraine is fast on course in just three weeks toward the levels of displacement from Syria's devastating war, which has driven about 13 million people from their homes both in the country and abroad.