More than three million flee Ukraine war, half of them children: UN
The Hindu
More than half of them, 1.8 million, have fled to Poland.
More than three million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, nearly half of them minors, with a child becoming a refugee every second, the UN said.
"We have now reached the three-million mark in terms of movement of people out of Ukraine," Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency (IOM), told reporters.
Less than three weeks into the invasion, "three million lives uprooted. Three million women, children and vulnerable people separated from their loved ones," IOM chief Antonio Vitorino said in a tweet.
"We need an immediate cessation of hostilities."
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, meanwhile put the total number of refugees to date at 2.97 million.
More than half of them, 1.8 million, have fled to Poland, it said.
The UN children's agency meanwhile said that more than 1.4 million of those who have fled are minors.
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