As of Thursday, more than 1.2 million refugees have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, APA reports citing CNN.
Of the 1,209,976 refugees who have fled, more than half crossed into Poland.
Others went to other neighboring countries including Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania.
More than a million left within just the first week, and many more are “on the move both inside and outside the country,” with many internally displaced families, according to UNHCR.