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UN Refugee Agency: Border crossings from Ukraine since war began passes 10 mln mark
The number of border crossings from Ukraine has surpassed 10 million for the first time since Russia invaded the country, the UN Refugee Agency reported on Tuesday (August 2).
The agency's tally showed that a total of 10,107,957 border crossings from Ukraine have been recorded since Feb. 24.
UNHCR’s Global Trends report showed on June 16, 27.1 million refugees and 4.6 million asylum seekers across the globe. Most of the data in the newly-released report was tallied as of the end of December 2021.
It said, the most remarkable figure, though, comes from data compiled through May 2022 which includes millions who fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion; for the first time in human history more than 100 million people are displaced from their homes.
To put the figures in starker terms: 1 in every 78 people on earth has been forced to flee violence or persecution, it added.
It was only last August that another major crisis — the fall of Afghanistan — drove tens of thousands from their homeland, with the United States evacuating and resettling more than 75,000.
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The UN says that, as of 4 July, more than 5.2 million refugees from Ukraine have been recorded across Europe. More than 3.5 million have applied for temporary residence in another country.
Others have moved on to other countries, especially those who crossed into Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. These nations have open borders with other EU states.
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