The number of Ukrainians who have fled of his country as a result of the war with Russia rose this Saturday to 2.59 millionaccording to figures updated daily by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which seem to indicate a certain momentary decrease in this exodus.
It is the first day since the first days of the Russian offensive in which the daily increase in refugees does not exceed 100,000 people, according to UNHCR statistics.
The exodus of Ukrainian refugees is the largest in Europe since World War IIeven surpassing those caused by all the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s (2.4 million according to calculations by humanitarian organizations).
To the exodus to the outside of Ukraine must be added the more than two million internally displaced by the conflict in the country, where, according to the first evaluations of humanitarian organizations, the war has directly affected 12.6 million people, more than a quarter of the total population.
UNHCR estimated in the first days of the war that it might generate up to four million refugees, although given the speed at which the figures are increasing, its officials acknowledged that it is possible that the flow of people fleeing the country is even greater.
More than half of the almost 2.6 million Ukrainian refugees are in Polandwhich hosts 1.57 million, while 235,000 fled to Hungary, 185,000 to Slovakia, 105,000 to Russia, 104,000 to Moldova and 84,000 to Romania, among other countries, according to UNHCR.
