A quarter of Ukraine’s population has been forced to flee their homes – the United Nations
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has released a report on the number of people forced to flee their homes.
As of April 1, about 7.1 million people were forcibly displaced in Ukraine, which is about 16% of the country’s population. It is being noted that since March 18, the number of internally displaced persons has increased by more than 660 thousand.
According to the IOM (International Organization for Migration, – Ed.) survey, more than 50% of displaced persons have children, 57% of them are the elderly and 30% are people with chronic diseases. About 30% of IDPs say they are considering further relocation from their current location.
In total, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, 11.4 million people have been forced to move, both within the country and abroad. Since March 18, the number of people who have gone abroad has increased by 30% to almost 4.3 million (as of March 18, it was about 3.3 million, – Ed.).
Most Ukrainians crossed the border with Poland (2.5 million), Romania (655 thousand), Moldova (399 thousand), Hungary (399 thousand), Slovakia (302 thousand) and Belarus (17 thousand).
According to the UN, 351,000 Ukrainians crossed the border with Russia. But as previously reported, the Russians are forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia from the temporarily occupied territories.
According to information provided by the UN Refugee Agency, received from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, more than 537 thousand people have entered Ukraine since February 24.
According to the poll, almost 80% of Ukrainians who went abroad due to the war plan to return to Ukraine after the end of hostilities, about 10% are still thinking about it and the same percentage of them are sure that they do not intend to return.
Source: OCHA
