The war in Ukraine started two months ago to the day, and 5.2 million refugees have fled the country.

Just over 23,000 have fled in the past 24 hours, according to partially updated figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees released on Sunday.

“Today we are thinking of all those celebrating Orthodox Easter.

For people in Ukraine and those forced to flee the country, it will be another day of fear, anguish, loss and separation from loved ones, as the war continues unabated.

May strength and courage be with them,” Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, tweeted on Sunday.

Today we think of all those celebrating #OrthodoxEaster.



For the people of Ukraine, and those forced to flee the country, it will be another day of fear, anguish, loss and separation from loved ones, as war continues to rage without mercy.



May strength and courage be with them.

— Filippo Grandi (@FilippoGrandi) April 24, 2022


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Since the beginning of April, just over 1,151,000 Ukrainians have fled, much less than the 3.4 million who chose to leave in March alone.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), also attached to the United Nations, indicated that more than 218,000 non-Ukrainians, mainly students and migrant workers, had also left Ukraine for neighboring countries, which brings to more than 5.25 million people in total have fled the country since the beginning of the war.

A majority of women and children

Women and children represent 90% of these refugees, men aged 18 to 60, likely to be mobilized, not having the right to leave.

Almost two-thirds of Ukrainian children have had to flee their homes, including those still in the country.

More than 7.7 million people have left their homes but are still in Ukraine, according to IOM.

Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine had a population of 37 million people in areas under its government's control.

This figure excludes Crimea (south), annexed in 2014 by Russia, and the eastern regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

Travel to Eastern Europe

Nearly six out of ten Ukrainian refugees (2,899,713 as of April 23) have fled to Poland, which hosts by far the largest number, although some then go to other European countries.

As of April 22, a total of 774,074 Ukrainians have left their country to enter Romania, many of whom arrived via Moldova, landlocked between Romania and Ukraine.

Most continued their journey to other countries.

The number of refugees in Russia stood at 578,255 as of April 21.

The figures have not been updated since then.

The UNHCR also notes that between February 18 and 23, 105,000 people crossed from the pro-Russian separatist territories of Donetsk and Lugansk (eastern Ukraine) to Russia.

A total of 489,754 Ukrainians had entered Hungary by April 23.

The Moldovan border is closest to the major Ukrainian port of Odessa.

According to the UNHCR, 433,214 Ukrainians had entered Moldova, a former Soviet republic and a small country of 2.6 million inhabitants among the poorest in Europe, as of April 23.

Most of these refugees continued their journey to other countries.

A total of 354,329 refugees have arrived from Ukraine in Slovakia since the start of the war, according to UNHCR figures dated 23 April.

As of April 21, 24,084 Ukrainians have found refuge in Belarus, a close ally of Russia.

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