The number of Ukrainian refugees exceeds 6.7 million

The ukrainian exodus It continues to increase, although so does the number of those who tentatively return to their country as the violence is concentrated in the east and south of their geography. More of 6.7 million people have been forced to leave Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has also detected more than 2.1 million returnsa Ukrainian territory. The United Nations has warned that the number of refugees will continue to grow if there is no Stop the fireto the point that in April he even predicted that 8.3 million people could leave Ukraine.

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has recorded more than eight million internally displaced persons. In recent weeks, however, an increase in returns has been detected, although UNHCR points out that for now “it is too early to draw conclusions on definitive trends”. Thus, on its website remember that there is “pendular” motionthat is, of people who temporarily return to Ukraine, and that the evolution is “very volatile and unpredictable”.

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The UNHCR spokeswoman, Olga Sarrado, explained that the rate of arrivals in poland it has fallen from the more than 100,000 daily registered at the beginning of March to an average of 20,000 in May. “People come back and cross the border into Ukraine for various reasons, including visiting relatives, to check the status of their properties or to return to their jobs,” Sarrado said. The number of departures, meanwhile, continues to increase and already accumulates more than 3.5 million only on the Polish border. In RomaniaUNHCR has recorded 984,000 arrivals, compared to 665,000 for Hungarythe 476,000 of moldova and the 451,000 of Slovakia. The UN agency also estimates that there are already more than 984,000 people in Russiaalthough local authorities in the latter country assured this week that the real figure –impossible to verify by other means– exceeds 1.4 million.