The number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine has reached 7.1 million – the UN

More than a quarter of Ukraine's population has been forced to flee their homes.

full-scale Russian invasion reached 7.1 million, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Earlier, this figure was estimated at 6.5-6.7 million, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

“More than a quarter of Ukraine's population has been forced to flee their homes. To date, more than 4.3 million refugees have left Ukraine, making this migration crisis the fastest growing since World War II, ”the UN report said.

According to the Ministry of Social Policy, as of April 9, Ukraine About 900,000 IDPs are registered.

The UN also reports that as of April 9, the number of people who have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion began is 4.5 million.

The flow of people leaving Ukraine is gradually slowing down: if 3 million people left the country in the first 19 days of the war, it took six days to increase by another half a million, then nine, and the last half a million – eleven days. UNHCR also adds that 2.59 million refugees left Ukraine for Poland, 755.3 thousand for Romania and Moldova, 419.1 thousand for Hungary, 404.4 thousand for Russia and Slovakia for 404.4 thousand. 314.5 thousand, Belarus – 19.1 thousand

At the same time, these data do not take into account the return flow to the entrance. According to the Polish border service, as of April 8, 2.573 million people have crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border since the beginning of the war, while 516 thousand, or about 20% of the total number of those who left, have crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border since the beginning of the war. This estimates the number of refugees from Ukraine at 3.6 million.

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The Cabinet has not adopted a procedure for the adoption of IDPs , there is no system of service and accounting of different migrants – who is transit, who is permanent, there is no individual approach to each person, family. The most important issue is the integration of migrants in the new territory.

How to link the torn country into a single organism that will work uninterruptedly to win? Does our state have a common strategy for securing the rear and maintaining the economy? What does it take to make it work? Read about this in Inna Vedernikova's interview with AUC Executive Director Oleksandr Slobozhan .

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Based on materials: ZN.ua

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