Humanitarian organizations have warned that Ukrainian refugees may be exploited by human trafficking and organized crime gangs, while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced that the number of refugees has exceeded 4 million to date.
Reports of humanitarian organizations prompted the Polish police to take strict security measures to intensify monitoring, while humanitarian organizations decided to change the rules for housing and escorting refugees.
Polish police say most of the refugees are women and children, so they monitor everything at the border and on the roads.
More than 4.1 million Ukrainian refugees have fled their country since the Russian war on Ukraine on February 24 (Reuters)
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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 4.1 million Ukrainian refugees have fled their country since the Russian war on Ukraine on February 24.
But the flow of refugees has slowed significantly since March 22, to about 40,000 crossings per day, according to the UNHCR.
More than 10 million people - more than a quarter of the population - have been forced to leave their homes, either by crossing borders to seek refuge in neighboring countries, or by seeking another safe haven in Ukraine.
The United Nations estimates the number of displaced people in Ukraine at about 6.5 million, while the number of Ukrainian refugees has reached 4,102,876 until the latest registration of statistics on the UNHCR website.
Europe has not seen such an influx of refugees since World War II, knowing that about 90% of those who have fled Ukraine are women and children.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that about two million children had fled.
The organization also estimates that more than half of the country's 7.5 million children are internally displaced or refugees.
About 204,000 non-Ukrainians have fled the country, and they sometimes face difficulties in returning to their countries.
Statistics indicate that the number of refugees was distributed among several countries. Since the beginning of the war, Poland alone has received 2,384,814 refugees, Romania 623,627 refugees, and Moldova 390,187 refugees, while Hungary has received 374,535 refugees, in addition to 292,039 refugees in Slovakia. .
As for Russia, it received about 350,632 people, in addition to 12,476 people in Belarus.
Mariupol evacuation plan
In this context, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the authorities in Ukraine and Russia had approved the evacuation plan in Mariupol.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross added that the evacuation process from Mariupol includes 54 buses, explaining that no decision has been taken yet on the destination of the displaced, but they will be in Ukraine.
The Red Cross confirmed that its teams are moving towards Mariupol, and that they have not received permission to provide humanitarian aid to the city, noting that the Red Cross teams were left without supplies.