Of those three million people who have fled the conflict, some 1.45 million are minors, many of whom have left Ukraine without relatives.
The war in ukraine It has already generated three million refugees in 19 days, according to the International Organization for Migration, with the particularity that every second a minor person becomes a refugee, in the words of Unicef.
“We have just received the latest figures and we can confirm that the mark of the three million refugees“, said the spokesman for the migration agency (IOM) in Geneva, Paul Dillon.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has pointed out that nearly 90% of refugees are women and minors.
According to the agency, 1.8 million of those people are in Poland263,000 in Hungary, 213,000 in Slovakia, 142,000 in Russia and several tens of thousands more have arrived in Romania and Moldova.
UNHCR estimates that if the armed conflict continues, the number of refugees could exceed four million, and the number of internally displaced persons could reach 6.7 million.
1.45 million, minors
In addition, of those three million people who have fled the conflict, some 1.45 million are minors, explained Unicef spokesman James Elder. In other words, every second a minor becomes a refugee because of the war in Ukraine.
Many minors have left Ukraine no relativesso Elder has warned of the fear that criminal organizations of human trafficking take advantage of this critical situation and the vulnerability of children.
“The speed and magnitude of this refugee crisis is unparalleled since World War II,” said the spokesman, who has spent several days in western Ukraine as part of UNICEF operations in the country.
“In this war, 50% of the refugees are children who do not know where they are going, who are separated from their parents and see how their mothers do the impossible to survive in extreme conditions,” said Elder.
Source: Eitb
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