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War in Ukraine
Issued on: 27/02/2022 – 18:08Modified: 27/02/2022 – 18:10
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Young refugees seen after crossing the Ukrainian-Hungarian border in Tiszabecs, Hungary, on February 27, 2022. © Attila Kisbenedek, AFP
Russia’s war on Ukraine risks displacing “over seven million people”, the EU commissioner for crisis management said Sunday.
“We are witnessing what could become the largest humanitarian crisis on our European continent in many, many years,” Janez Lenarcic told a media conference after a meeting of EU interior ministers focused on the flow of refugees from Ukraine.
“Currently, the expected number of displaced Ukrainians is over seven million people,” he said, but cautioned he was giving only “rough estimates” from the UN because fighting prevented accurate counting.