The invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine forced over 3.3 million Ukrainians to go abroad, almost 6.5 million became internally displaced persons. 1.5 million children have left Ukraine since the beginning of the war. UNICEF Executive Director Katherine Russell made the announcement, DW reports..

It is noted that 3,328,692 Ukrainians left Ukraine, 58,030 of them on Friday, March 18. In addition, as of March 16, 162,000 third-country nationals left our country..

About 90% of those who left Ukraine are women and children. Men from 18 to 60 years old are prohibited from leaving Ukraine due to martial law. However, there are exceptions for certain categories of men..

Most refugees from Ukraine arrived in Poland - a total of more than 2 million people. Moldova received more than 518 thousand refugees from Ukraine, Romania - more than 359 thousand, Hungary - about 300 thousand, Slovakia - more than 240 thousand.

According to the UN, some people leaving Ukraine stay in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia only temporarily. Subsequently, they move on to other countries of the European Union..

More than 184 thousand Ukrainians arrived in Russia, and 2.

5 thousand arrived in Belarus. During February 21-23, 50 thousand people arrived in the Russian Federation from the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine (CADLO).

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Earlier, the UN Security Council said that Europe is now facing the worst refugee crisis since World War II..