UNHCR: Five million displaced people from Ukraine

Created: 04/20/2022, 00:00

A mother is waiting with her daughter for a bus to flee the city of Sloviansk.

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The flow of refugees from the Ukraine does not stop.

In order to escape from Russian aggression, millions have to leave their homes.

New York - According to current calculations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assumes that more than five million people have fled Ukraine from the Russian war of aggression.

"That's five million individual stories of loss and trauma," UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements said at a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday.

António Vitorino of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) added that there were also around 7.1 million people who had left their homes within Ukraine.

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At the meeting, member states discussed the need for more support for refugees and an end to the war.

It was the sixth meeting of the Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine since the war of aggression began almost two months ago on February 24.

Their UN ambassador Serhiy Kislizia criticized the fact that the Security Council continues to treat Russia as a full member.

"Colleagues, it seems to me that these meetings will not change much," said Kislizia.

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