GENEVA: The United Nations refugee company (UNHCR) expects about 8.3 million folks to flee Ukraine this 12 months, a spokesman stated on Tuesday, revising its earlier forecast.
Greater than 12.7 million folks have fled their properties prior to now two months, together with 7.7 million internally displaced folks and greater than 5 million who fled the border, UNHCR spokesman Shabia Mantu advised a UN information convention.
UNHCR had beforehand deliberate to absorb about 4 million refugees instantly after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, however it surpassed that quantity final month.
“The dimensions of the disaster, completely the pace at which persons are fleeing, we’ve not seen lately,” Mantu stated on the briefing. She added that Syria stays the world’s largest refugee disaster, with 6.8 million folks fleeing.
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