The number of people fleeing the war in Ukraine has slowed in recent days, according to a UN refugee agency official.
Daily border crossings from Ukraine into Poland, the country that has received the most arrivals, have fallen by around half from a peak of about 100,000 daily, Reuters quoted Matthew Saltmarsh as saying.
However, more of the refugees crossing into Poland in recent days have been showing signs of having suffered trauma than those who fled earlier in the crisis.
Speaking from Poland, Saltmarsh said:
Many of them don’t have a plan. Those who arrive are not clear where they can go.
Refugees are seen as they wait for further transportation on raiway station in Przemysl, Poland on March 17, 2022. - Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty Images
Figures could rise again if the fighting spreads further west, he added, as many people fled besieged cities in the country’s east to the western city of Lviv.
Overall, UN agencies say 3.27 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February and an additional 2 million people have been displaced internally.
Figures could rise again if the fighting spreads further west, he added, as many people fled besieged cities in the country’s east to the western city of Lviv.
If indeed there is an escalation in Lviv, there is a danger there will be renewed movements towards the border.
Overall, UN agencies say 3.27 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February and an additional 2 million people have been displaced internally.
Putin's plots
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- clearing the war zones of civilians, so that real war could start when necessary
- those Ukrainian 'fighters', conscripts & ragtagging newbies, would be toasted. Pity those 18-60 armed newbies dying together with those right-wing extremist, neo-Nazi, National Guard of Ukraine.