{"id":1351014,"date":"2022-02-28T23:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1351014"},"modified":"2022-02-28T23:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:52:47","slug":"u-n-half-a-million-people-have-fled-ukraine-since-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-half-a-million-people-have-fled-ukraine-since-russian-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N.: Half a Million People Have Fled Ukraine Since Russian Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-n-half-a-million-people-have-fled-ukraine-since-russian-invasion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1351014&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ukrainian-Refugees-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An estimated 500,000 people have fled Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union (E.U.) since Russia invaded Ukraine last Thursday, U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/more-than-half-million-people-have-fled-ukraine-un-says-2022-02-28\/\">said<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 500,000 refugees have now fled from Ukraine into neighbouring countries,\u201d he wrote in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FilippoGrandi\/status\/1498247150953799680?cxt=HHwWgIC9pZD268opAAAA\">shared<\/a> by Twitter on February 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier on February 27, Grandi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FilippoGrandi\/status\/1497912426876092420?cxt=HHwWiIC-yc_a08kpAAAA\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, \u201cThe number of refugees from Ukraine who have crossed to Poland, Hungary, Romania, Moldova and other countries is escalating and is now 368,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-refugees-454ae620724d3b91208ce63c0128fa69\">estimated<\/a> on Monday that of Ukraine\u2019s displaced people, \u201c281,000 [were] in Poland, 84,500 in Hungary, 36,400 in Moldova, 32,500 in Romania and 30,000 in Slovakia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest were scattered in unidentified other countries,\u201d she added, as quoted by the\u00a0Associated Press (AP).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The news agency\u00a0said it\u00a0witnessed Ukraine\u2019s mass exodus flooding the borders of \u201cPoland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and non-EU member Moldova\u201d on February 28. On Monday, the AP visited a temporary migrant reception center in the Hungarian village of Beregsurany \u2014 which borders western Ukraine\u2019s Berehove Raion district \u2014 as the center accepted people traveling from Ukraine to the E.U.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the refugees at the reception center in Beregsurany, as in other border areas in Eastern Europe, are from India, Nigeria and other African countries, and were working or studying in Ukraine when the war broke out,\u201d the news agency revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungary, in a turnaround from its long-standing opposition to immigration and refusal to accept refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has opened its borders to all refugees fleeing Ukraine, including third-country nationals that can prove Ukrainian residency,\u201d the New York City-based AP observed.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/UKRAINE-CRISIS\/zdpxokdxzvx\/\">invaded<\/a> Ukraine on the morning of February 24, prompting many Ukrainians and other people residing in Ukraine to leave the country over the past four days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of those fleeing Ukraine were entering the EU from its eastern flank, with some traveling on to countries further west,\u201d the AP noted of the mass migration.<\/p>\n<p>A woman named Aksieniia Shtimmerman is one example of a refugee who traveled further into the E.U. beyond Ukraine\u2019s immediate border. Shtimmerman, 41, told the news agency she and her four children traveled for three days from Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s national capital, before arriving in Berlin, Germany, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Germany\u2019s Interior Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/un-more-than-half-a-million-have-fled-ukraine\/a-60944193\">said<\/a> on Monday that \u201c1,800 refugees from Ukraine had arrived in Germany so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU is preparing to allow fleeing Ukrainians the right to stay and work in the 27-nation bloc for up to three years,\u201d Deutsche Welle reported on February 28, citing senior E.U. and French government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 500,000 people have fled Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union (E.U.) since Russia invaded Ukraine last Thursday, U.N. 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