GENEVA (Switzerland), April 25 (EFE).- The United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) stated this Monday that the number of refugees from Ukraine due to the war has increased by 20,000 in the last 24 hours to 5.2 million.
Poland is the main target of this flow, with 2.9 million Ukrainians already received. Romania follows closely with 777,000, most of them after passing Moldova. Hungary comes next with 492,000 and Slovakia with 355,000, according to the UN agency.
UNHCR itself has already acknowledged that the current refugee crisis is the worst crisis experienced by the continent of Europe since the end of the Second World War, which ran from 1939 to 1945, with numbers already approaching other emigrations.
In Venezuela, 6 million people have left the country since 2014, and in this decade of war in Syria, this figure has grown to 6.8 million.
UNHCR also stated that there are 7.7 million internally displaced people in Ukraine due to the Russian occupation. The number of people who left their homes on the territory of Ukraine reached 13 million, representing more than a quarter of the population.
At least 2,665 civilians were killed and 3,053 injured, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday.
However, the agency itself states that the numbers may be higher due to the difficulty of controlling besieged places such as Mariupol, Izium and Popasna.
source: Noticias
