More Than 2M Flee Russian Invasion Of Ukraine: UN

More than two million people have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, the latest data from the United Nations (UN) revealed, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Photo Insert: A Ukrainian child refugee prepares to board a train in Przemyśl, Poland.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, recorded 2,011,312 refugees on its dedicated website, 276,244 more than the previous count on Monday. UNICEF, the UN children's agency, believes hundreds of thousands of them are youngsters.

Authorities and the UN expect the flow to intensify as the Russian army advances deeper into Ukraine, particularly as it approaches the capital, Kyiv.

Before Russia invaded, more than 37 million people lived in Ukrainian territory under the control of the central government. Besides those who have left, an unknown number have been displaced from their homes within the country. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 103,000 third-country nationals were among those who have fled.

"There are countless tens of thousands of others who remain in the country stranded," IOM spokesman Paul Dillon said, citing a mixture of overseas students and people who have been living or working in the country for years.

Poland is hosting 1,204,403 refugees, with the number swelling by 176,800 in 24 hours. A total of 191,348 refugees are now in Hungary while 140,745 refugees have reached Slovakia. UNHCR says the number of refugees who have crossed Ukraine's longest border into Russia since the invasion is 99,300, practically all of them from the separatist eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions between February 18 and 23.

Some 82,762 refugees were now in Moldova and 82,062 refugees from Ukraine are now in Romania, according to latest the figures dated to the end of Sunday.

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