Europe is experiencing biggest refugee crisis since World War II
ERBIL, Syria (North Press) – More than 1,5 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed into neighboring countries in 10 days, the UN refugee agency commissioner Filippo Grandi said on Sunday.
Grandi called it “the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.”
With the continuation of the Russian military operation of Ukraine for the tenth consecutive day, the Ukrainian authorities in the city of Mariupol announced, on Sunday, the start of the evacuation of civilians from the city as part of the ceasefire agreement at 12 noon.
The Ukrainians who escaped the war during the past days, went to neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and other places, while tens of thousands of people were internally displaced.
On March 3, the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR said “one million people have fled Ukraine, and unless there is an immediate end to the conflict, millions more are likely to be forced to flee Ukraine.”