UN: Over 3.8 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded

GENEVA — More than 3.8 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion a month ago, UN figures show today, but the flow of refugees has slowed down markedly.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says 3,821,049 Ukrainians have fled the country — an increase of 48,450 from yesterday’s figures.

Around 90 percent of them are women and children, it adds.

Of those who have left, 2.2 million have fled for neighboring Poland, while more than half a million have made it to Romania. Nearly 300,000 have gone to Russia.

Before the crisis began a month ago, EU member Poland was home to around 1.5 million Ukrainians.

In total, more than 10 million people — over a quarter of the population in regions under government control before the February 24 invasion — are now thought to have fled their homes, including nearly 6.5 million who are internally displaced.

Ukraine’s refugee crisis is Europe’s worst since World War II.