Already ten million people are on the run due to war in Ukraine

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The number of people fleeing due to war at home and abroad continues to rise. 3.4 million have already left the country.

According to UN figures, the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has already forced around ten million people to flee their homes. These people have fled to other places within Ukraine or outside the country, the head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, wrote on the short message service Twitter on Sunday. According to the UNHCR, almost 3.4 million people have fled the war to other countries.

Since the Russian attack began on 24 February, tens of thousands have arrived daily in Ukraine’s neighboring countries to the west, especially Poland. Ninety percent of them are women and children. Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 can be drafted into the military and are not allowed to leave the country.

The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that there are 1.5 million children among the war refugees abroad. The danger of these children becoming victims of human traffickers is “real and increasing.“ Before the Russian attack, 37 million people in Ukraine lived in the regions controlled by the government in Kyiv. Excluded from this count are the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, and the pro-Russian separatist areas in the east.