According to the UN refugee agency, 5,133,747 Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The figure represents a 48,387 rise over Thursday’s figures, according to UNHCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far in April, 1,098,000 Ukrainians have departed the nation, compared to 3.4 million for the entire month of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women and children make up 90% of those who have left overseas, with men aged 18 to 60 who are eligible for military service unwilling to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An additional 218,000 people of third countries \u2014 mostly students and migrant workers \u2014 have fled to neighboring nations, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to refugees, the IOM estimates that 7.7 million people have been displaced within the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine had a population of 37 million people in government-controlled areas before the invasion, excluding Russia-annexed Crimea and pro-Russian separatist-controlled areas in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, since the war began, 1.1 million Ukrainians have returned home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to UNHCR, the following is a breakdown of how many Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighboring countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far, nearly six out of ten Ukrainian refugees \u2014 2,867,241 \u2014 have entered Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of them have continued on to other countries in the Schengen open-borders zone of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, more than 800,000 individuals have crossed the Polish-Ukraine border, according to Polish border guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to the war, Poland was home to over 1.5 million Ukrainians, the majority of whom were migrant workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 769,616 Ukrainians entered the EU member state, with many of them coming from Moldova, which is sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vast majority of them are believed to have relocated to other nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia has taken in a total of 578,255 refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between February 18 and 23, 105,000 individuals walked into Russia from the separatist-held pro-Russian territories of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hungary has received a total of 480,974 Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Moldovan border is the closest to Odessa, Ukraine’s biggest port city. By Wednesday, 430,170 Ukrainians had entered the non-EU country, which is one of Europe’s poorest. The majority of people have moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 349,286 persons crossed the shortest border between Ukraine and Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another 23,900 people have been added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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