With more than two months of warfare and no hope of a peace deal in Ukraine, the UN is redoing its calculations and warning that it will need twice the money originally requested to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Eastern Europe.
If the UN had predicted 4 million refugees at the start of the conflict, new estimates presented in Geneva this Tuesday point to the scenario of more than 8.3 million people leaving the country by the end of the year if the conflict is not resolved. was interrupted.
Today, the largest refugee crisis in the world remains that of the Syrians, with 6.8 million people staying abroad. But Ukrainians are already in second place in a country of 44 million people, with 5.3 million people staying outside its borders.
The European crisis has already exceeded the volume of Venezuelan refugees totaling 4.1 million people. The fourth major crisis is for Afghans with 2.6 million refugees.
In March, the UN issued a warning that it would need $1.1 billion to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Today, given the extent of the war, the organization estimates it will need US$2.2 billion to guarantee food, medicine and shelter for the population in need.
Documents from the organization show that donors and foreign governments have already allocated US$980 million to one of the strongest responses from the international community in years, far beyond the volume of other crises in the world.
A little over a month ago, the UN estimated that 12 million Ukrainians would need humanitarian assistance. Today, there are 15 million people in urgent need of help.
The organization emphasizes that in addition to more than 5.3 million refugees, 7.7 million Ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes and cities and live displaced in other parts of the country.
source: Noticias
