Nearly 368,000 refugees have fled fighting in Ukraine for neighboring countries and the number “continues to rise,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Sunday.
This number “is based on data made available by national authorities,” the UNHCR stressed in a tweet.
A very large number of them are arriving in Poland, where authorities counted some 156,000 since Thursday.
On Saturday alone, border guards said they had counted 77,300 people arriving in Poland from Ukraine.
Last Friday, the UNHCR announced that “the worsening of the conflict could push up to 5 million people to flee beyond the Ukrainian borders”.
“We are looking at scenarios with ranges of 1 to 3 million people in Poland for example. A scenario of 1 to 5 million including all the surrounding countries,” UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo said at a regular UN press briefing in Geneva.
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