U.N. refugee agency says number of Ukrainian refugees could soon hit the one million.
NEWcould soon hit the one million mark, according to the U.N. refugee agency., the agency reported Wednesday. That number is"rising exponentially" and could grow to a million in a matter of hours.
People cross the Ukrainian border to Siret, Romania, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, as they evacuate amid Russia´s invasion of Ukraine. "I have worked in refugee crises for almost 40 years and I have rarely seen such an incredibly fast rising exodus of people," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the UN Security Council Monday.Russia and Ukraine have been battling for seven days as of Wednesday, leaving hundreds of transport facilities, hospitals, kindergartens and houses destroyed.
"This is beyond humanity," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, according to a translation."Such missile strike means that, for many Russians, our Kyiv is absolute foreign. They know nothing about our capital, about our history. They have orders to erase our history, our country and all of us.
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