The number of refugees fleeing war in Ukraine should exceed 2 millions in the next two days, the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
“I think we’re going pass the bar of two millions today or maybe latest tomorrow. So it doesn’t stop,” Filippo Grandi told reporters. in Oslo.
On Monday, UNHCR put the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine to more more than 1.7 million.
Grown up made his remarks during a press conference, after having visited Moldova, Poland and Romania, all of who have taken in refugees crossing the Ukrainian border since Russia invaded the country on February 24.
He praised the “exemplary” welcome of these three countries, adding that they seemed to “do face” with the “natural spontaneous distribution”.
Grandi pointed out that the first waves of the refugees were those with some resources.
“Many come car, and above all they have relationships. They can go where they have family, friends, communities,” the commissioner said. ” This is possible that if the war continues … we will start seeing people who have neither resources nor connections and who will be a more complex issue for European countries manage to go forward and there will be need to be peer more solidarity of all in Europe and beyond,” he said.
By way of comparison, Grandi said that the Balkan Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have seen “maybe two to three millions peoplebut over a period of eight years.”
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On Monday, Grandi called it ‘the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War”, in a post to Twitter.
After several failed attempts, Russia promised to open humanitarian corridors on from Tuesday to allow civilians to flee Ukrainian towns that had fallen under artillery fire.
