Ukraine: More than 870,000 people displaced by the conflict have returned home

This is information provided by the Border Force Ukraine announced on 12/4.

According to Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard, about 25,000 to 30,000 Ukrainians are repatriating every day, including many women and children. Many returnees think that the situation is safer, especially in the western regions, so they are ready to return home.

This shift comes after Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev at the end of March.

On April 3, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said that 537,000 people had returned to the country. According to the United Nations, a total of more than 4.6 million Ukrainians have gone abroad since Russia launched a special military operation on February 24.

This is the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The majority of these Ukrainians evacuated have been to neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova.

More than 870,000 displaced Ukrainians have been repatriated. (Photo: AP)

Earlier, at the beginning of April, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that, in the more than five weeks to the beginning of April, nearly 4.2 million Ukrainians had left the country since the incident. Russia-Ukraine conflict. Of the evacuees, women and children make up 90%.

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 Russia-Ukraine conflict to more than 10 million. , which accounts 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.

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