UN says 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine

By AP 4 March 2022, 5:28 pm

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People fleeing from Ukraine queue to board on a bus at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The UN refugee agency reports that more than 1.2 million people have left Ukraine since the fighting began.

More than 165,000 people left the country on Thursday — down slightly from Wednesday’s count and well under the nearly 200,000 on Tuesday, which amounted to the peak one-day outflow of people from Ukraine since the conflict began, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Its data portal on Ukraine showed that the majority — about 650,000 — had gone to neighboring Poland, and roughly 145,000 had fled to Hungary. Another 103,000 were in Moldova and more than 90,000 in Slovakia.