Nearly 4.2 million people have fled due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict

The above data has just been released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on April 3.

Specifically, 4,176,401 people have evacuation across the borders of Ukraine. Of the evacuees, women and children make up 90%. Nearly 40,000 of them fled to neighboring countries in the past 24 hours.

Men in Ukraine between the ages of 18 and 60 are eligible for military service and cannot leave the country.

According to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 205,000 citizens from other countries, living and working in Ukraine, have also had to leave the country.

According to the IOM, as of mid-March, nearly 6.48 million people are believed to have been evacuated within the country, bringing the total number of people displaced from their homes due to the pandemic. Russia-Ukraine conflict more than 10 million people, accounting for about a quarter of Ukraine’s population.

At the end of March, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more than half of the 7.5 million children in Ukraine had been displaced, including 2.5 million internally displaced and 2 million children. million children evacuated to other countries.

Of the evacuees, women and children make up 90%. (Photo: AP)

Earlier, on April 2, Russia and Ukraine made an announcement about the peace process, after direct talks between the two countries in Istanbul, Turkey took place on March 29. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, negotiations with Ukraine have not been easy, but it is important that the process continues. Dmitry Peskov said that Russia wants to continue negotiations with Ukraine in neighboring Belarus, but Kiev has opposed this proposal.

Meanwhile, representative of Ukraine’s negotiating delegation David Arakhamia said that the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskiy is likely to take place in Turkey. However, he did not mention the time or the place.

After about four hours of negotiations, the Russian negotiating team returned to Moscow on the evening of March 29, bringing Ukraine’s written proposal for a “peace agreement” between the two sides. This result is considered a significant step forward in the difficult negotiation process to end the conflict that has lasted for more than a month in Ukraine.

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