UN Estimates Up to 4 Million Refugees to Flee Ukraine
Some 677,000 people have already left the country, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday.
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As many as 4 million people could seek refuge in other countries “in the coming weeks” as the war in Ukraine grows increasingly dire, a United Nations official said.
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, offered the estimate in a Security Council meeting on Feb. 28. The figure represents a 300% increase from earlier EU estimates that 1 million people could flee Ukraine because of Russia’s invasion. For a country of about 44 million people, that would mean a departure of about 9% of its population.