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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley

More than 4 million have fled Russia’s ‘senseless’ war on Ukraine, says UN

People, mainly women and children, arrive at Przemyśl train station in Poland on Wednesday after travelling from Ukraine.
People, mainly women and children, arrive at Przemyśl train station in Poland on Wednesday after travelling from Ukraine. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

More than 4 million people have fled Russia’s “utterly senseless” war on Ukraine, the United Nations has said, as the Kremlin played down hopes of an early breakthrough a day after peace talks between the two sides.

“We cannot state that there was anything too promising or any breakthroughs,” the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Wednesday. He said it was “positive” that Kyiv had outlined its demands but there was “a lot of work to be done”.

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