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More than 3 million refugees flee Ukraine

While many Ukrainians stay to fight, several million Ukrainians have fled their country, mostly to Poland, since Russia's invasion last month.

Ukrainian firefighters check damage from a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv
Ukrainian firefighters check damage from a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv (AN/Ukrainian Police Department Press Service)

GENEVA (AN) — More than 3 million Ukrainians have fled their country, mostly to Poland, from the Russian invasion in an exodus that is unusually quick, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.

Ukrainian fighters led by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have been offering tough resistance that appears to have slowed the Russian invasion. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have fled their homes amid Russia's multi-pronged invasion of the democratic country of 44 million people, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.

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