UN says 11 million people fled homes in Ukraine

The UN migration company on Tuesday estimated that greater than 11 million individuals had fled their houses in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion. The Worldwide Organisation for Migration, in its first such full evaluation in three weeks, reported that greater than 7.1 million had been displaced inside Ukraine as of April 1.

The newest numbers got here on high of the determine of greater than 4 million individuals who fled overseas, reported by the UN refugee company.

IOM mentioned greater than 2.9 million others had been actively contemplating “leaving their place of recurring residence because of warfare”.

Ukraine had a pre-war inhabitants of 44 million.

The tally marked a rise from IOM’s tally in mid-March of greater than 9.7 million displaced internally in Ukraine or pushed overseas.