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Refugees from Ukraine, including families with children, rest in a shelter in the Polish city of Przemysl after crossing the border. Over 2.8 million people have fled the war in Ukraine, the UN's refugee agency says, describing the outflow as Europe's largest refugee exodus since World War II. IMAGES
Refugees wait at Przemysl train station on the Poland-Ukrainian border, some sitting on the floor, as they wait to board trains taking them further into Poland and further from the war in Ukraine. The United Nations estimates that over 2 million people have fled Russia's invasion of its pro-Western neighbour so far. IMAGES
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian refugees continue to pour across the Polish border to escape the Russian invasion. More than two million Ukrainians have already entered Poland since 24 February. IMAGES
Snowfall and bitter cold does little to deter refugees from crossing the Polish border to flee Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations estimates the number of people fleeing the war now tops two million. Poland alone has received 1.2 million people. IMAGES
Russia's war on Ukraine has displaced "over seven million people," EU commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarcic says at a press conference in Brussels after a meeting of EU interior ministers focused on the refugee flow out of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
Targeting hospitals in Ukraine is a "war crime," a senior UN official tells an emergency meeting of the Security Council, called in the wake of deadly strikes that Kyiv blamed on Russia. "Intentionally directing attacks against a protected hospital is a war crime and perpetrators must be held to account," says Joyce Msuya, acting under-secretary for humanitarian affairs. SOUNDBITE