The alarming humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

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Mwananchi Communications Limited

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According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 3.9 million of them have fled their country. On the other hand, 6.5 million Ukrainians have also moved to the western part of Ukraine.

90 percent of the refugees are women and children. In fact, Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 20 years old are not allowed to leave and must stay to defend their country. According to UNICEF, more than 1.8 million children are among the refugees who have fled the country, and 2.5 million have been displaced within Ukraine, making them a very vulnerable population.
Concerning the hosting of the Ukrainian refugees in the initial stages of refuge, it is mainly Ukraine’s neighbouring countries that welcomed them. The Polish Ambassador highlighted that “about 2 million Ukrainians are in Poland right now”. According to figures from the UN Refugee Agency, this is more than half of the refugees. Two-thirds of the Ukrainians would like to stay in this country.
Meanwhile, Romania and Moldavia host 587,000 and 381,000 refugees respectively. In these cases, most of the refugees intend not to stay but to continue moving. Lastly, Hungary with 349,000 and Slovakia with 272,000 Ukrainians. It has to be noted that 271,000 Ukrainian refugees are also in Russia, in addition to 113,000 others who crossed borders from the pro-Russian territories of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Some of these migrants are expected to leave the Eastern countries in order to be scattered according to the reception capacities of other European countries. For instance, in Poland, 200,000 refugees have been evacuated by trains to other hosting countries. It was mostly travellers in direction to Berlin, Prague, and Vienne. It is difficult to know the exact number of refugees who left their first hosting countries, as the European Schengen area does not have internal border controls.

The alarming humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

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