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- # Figure is biggest ever in war time
- # IN Syria it took 3-months for exodus of one million
Jubilee News Desk
IN eight days of Russia-Ukraine war over one million citizens have fled Ukraine to save their livesa figure biggest till now amid war.
If compared to civil war in Syria in 2011, about 5.7 million, or 57 lakh, people had fled the country. But even when the exodus from Syria had increased rapidly in 2013, it took at least three months for 1 million refugees to leave the Western Asian country.
Currently, Russian invasion in Ukraine is continuing for the eighth day in a row. The Russian invasion has forced around 10 lakh people to flee Ukraine in just 7 days and millions more are likely to be displaced if the conflict continues, the UN Refugee Agency said today.
Among those forced to leave Ukraine are tens of thousands of Indians, most of them students. These students had taken admission in to various medical schools in Ukraine.
#OperationGanga | A special Indigo flight, carrying 229 Indian nationals from #Ukraine, arrives in Delhi from Suceava in Romania pic.twitter.com/mucdrnJk1R
— ANI (@ANI) March 5, 2022
“I have worked in refugee emergencies for almost 40 years, and rarely have I seen an exodus as rapid as this one,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said adding: “In just seven days, one million people have fled Ukraine, uprooted by this senseless war.”
He added that “unless there is an immediate end to the conflict, millions more are likely to be forced to flee Ukraine.” Inside Ukraine, the UNHCR staff and other humanitarians are working where and when they can in frightening conditions, he said.
UNHCR staff have already moved in throughout the region and are scaling up our protection and assistance programmes for refugees, in support of host governments, he said.
There was a lot of chaos at the border in Ukraine and people had to wait for two days to cross over to Romania from where they got flights to their respective countries. Out in cold and snowfall people waited and saved their lives.
