Ukraine Gate -Kiev- March 3, 2022- The head of the United Nations refugee agency, Filippo Grandi, has announced that one million refugees have fled Ukraine a week after Russia invaded.
“In just seven days, we witnessed the departure of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighboring countries,” he wrote.
According to the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, it is time for the weapons to remain silent in order to provide humanitarian aid to those who remain in war-torn Ukraine.
As earlier this week during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said that as of March 1, the Russian invasion has caused more than half a million refugees from Ukraine, and at least 160,000 have been internally displaced. . persons.