Ukraine War: One Child Turning Into Refugee Every Minute, Says UN

The United Nations says a child in Ukraine is becoming a refugee every minute as the Russian invasion intensifies by the day.

At least 1.4 million children have now fled Ukraine since the invasion began on February 24, meaning one child a minute has become a refugee, the UN noted.

“On average, every day over the last 20 days in Ukraine, more than 70,000 children have become refugees, … essentially one child becoming a refugee every minute since the conflict started,” James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency UNICEF, told reporters in Geneva.

In whole, more than three million people have fled Ukraine, according to the International Organization for Migration, arm of the UN.

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“We have now reached the three-million mark in terms of movement of people out of Ukraine,” Aljazeera quoted the IOM spokesman, Paul Dillon.