UN Tally: 2.8 Million Refugees Have Now Fled Ukraine

The New York Times reports:

In less than three weeks since the start of Russia’s invasion, more than 2.8 million people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations refugee agency. Most of them have flowed into five neighboring countries.

Poland has taken in the bulk of refugees, about 1.7 million people. With many more expected to come, President Andrzej Duda has pleaded for other countries to help. “Unless we receive international assistance,” he said on Thursday in a joint news conference with visiting Vice President Kamala Harris, “this will end up in a refugee disaster.”

Hungary has taken in more than 255,000 refugees even though its prime minister, Viktor Orban, has long been friendly to Russia and took a hard-line anti-immigration stance during Europe’s previous refugee crisis.

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More than 2.8 million refugees have fled Ukraine in just a few weeks.
If an equivalent percentage of refugees fled the US, that would amount to more than 20 million Americans.https://t.co/ynHWt80Im7

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