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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Rachael Burford and Nicholas Cecil

‘Humanitarian catastrophe’ in Ukraine displaces seven million people

A woman holds her baby inside a bus as they leave Kyiv, Ukraine (Emilio Morenatti/AP)

Ukraine is on the brink of a “humanitarian catastrophe“, Britain’s UN ambassador warned on Tuesday, as the Government was urged to reconsider its “distressing” refugee policy.

Dame Barbara Woodward told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that the Kremlin was launching “indiscriminate attacks against men, women and children” and violating international humanitarian law.

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