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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lizzy Davies

‘We need safe access’: aid groups in Ukraine struggle amid warning 7m could be displaced

A truck with emergency aid in Chernivtsi, western Ukraine.
A truck with emergency aid in Chernivtsi, western Ukraine. Aid workers described a complex and dangerous relief effort within the country. Photograph: Annalisa Ausilio/Italian Red Cross/AFP/Getty

Aid workers are demanding “safe, unimpeded” access to hundreds of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in Ukraine, amid warnings that the number of people displaced within the country by the Russian invasion could reach nearly 7 million.

On Friday, the UN said 1.85 million people had been displaced internally by the conflict, a figure widely believed to be an underestimate in a highly volatile and rapidly changing security situation.

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