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More than 14 million people fled homes in Ukraine since Russia invasion: UN

Anastasiia Korobchenko, 23, an internally displaced person (IDP), shows a picture of her destroyed house occupied by Russian troops in Rubizhne in the Luhansk region, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, on January 21, 2024 [Alina Smutko/Reuters]

The United Nations has said that more than 14 million Ukrainians were forced to flee their homes at some point in the two years since Russia’s invasion, as UN rights chief Volker Turk spoke of the “horrific human cost” of the conflict.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds into its third year, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday that nearly 6.5 million people are now living outside the country as refugees.

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