More than five million Ukrainians flee war: UN
5 years agoUkrainian evacuees arrive at a village of prefabricated houses for people displaced by the war in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 19, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Inside the country, some 200,000 people have found shelter in Lviv, a city with a pre-war population of around 700,000 that has remained relatively safe compared to the rest of the country, despite deadly missile strikes on April 18. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made a flash visit to the new settlement for the displaced in Lviv on Tuesday, saying it could welcome up to 350 people. (Photo by Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP)
More than five million Ukrainians have now fled their country following the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Wednesday, in Europe's fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II.