According to the High Commission for Refugees, more than four million Ukrainians have gone abroad since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
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The Ukrainian Interior Ministry announced on Sunday 3 April that 500,000 people had returned to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. “Over the past week, 144,000 people left Ukraine and 88,000 arrived there. In total, about 537,000 of our compatriots returned to Ukraine”he said in a statement, citing data from the National Border Service.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for its part recorded on Saturday more than four million (4,176,401) Ukrainians who had left for abroad since the outbreak of the conflict on February 24, i.e. 38,559 more than at the previous score the day before. Europe has not seen such a flood of refugees since the Second World War.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration said around 205,500 non-Ukrainians had also fled Ukraine, sometimes encountering difficulties in returning to their country of origin.
In total, more than ten million people, more than a quarter of the population, have had to leave their homes, either by crossing the border to find refuge in neighboring countries, or by moving elsewhere in Ukraine.
Before this conflict, Ukraine had more than 37 million inhabitants in the territories controlled by kyiv, which excludes the Crimea annexed in 2014 by Russia and the areas of Donbass under the control of pro-Russian separatists since the same year.