A Ukrainian child becomes a refugee every second

About 1.4 million children have fled Ukraine since the start of Russian military operations in Ukraine on February 24, and the war in Ukraine has turned one child into a refugee every second, the United Nations announced Tuesday.

"On average, every day for the last 20 days in Ukraine, more than 70,000 children became refugees," UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva. .

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