It's a terrifying statistic.
Almost every second that passes, a child in Ukraine becomes a refugee, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday, commenting on the steady stream of people fleeing the country since February 24 and the Russian invasion.
1.4 million refugee children
In the past 20 days, around 1.4 million children have been forced to flee the country, around 55 per minute or "virtually one child per second", said James Elder, a UNICEF spokesman, during of a regular UN press briefing in Geneva.
In total, the number of people who fled Ukraine reached more than 2.95 million people, according to the latest count from the High Commissioner for Refugees, Tuesday around 10 a.m.
A crisis unprecedented since the Second World War
"This crisis, in terms of speed and scale, is unprecedented since World War II," Elder said.
The spokesperson, also echoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stressed that these children "are at significant risk of separation, violence, sexual exploitation and trafficking".
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