According to the UN, two and a half million people left Ukraine after the Russian invasion on February 24.
“Two and a half million people have already left Ukraine, including 116,000 third-country nationals,” Paul Dylan, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration at the United Nations, said on Twitter.
Meanwhile, more than 60 MEPs have called on the EC to better coordinate the transport of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the beleaguered homeland to Europe.
In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Transport Commissioner Adina Weine, MEPs said the commission should “take the lead in helping resettle hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Ukraine and the heartless aggression of Russian invaders”.
“We are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, and to avoid it, we need strong and immediate support and pan-European coordination,” they wrote.