79% of war refugees intend to return to Ukraine after the end of the war, according to a survey published on Tuesday by the Ukrayinska Pravda news portal. 10% of those surveyed do not plan to return, and not 11% varies.
The poll, conducted by the Razumkov Center in Kyiv, also shows that 89% of respondents believe that Ukraine will win the war. The opposite opinion is shared by 1%.
Over 4 million refugees
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, more than 4.1 million refugees have fled Ukraine, 2.5 million of them ended up in Poland, according to the UN.
Ukrainians are also fleeing the war from Moldova. This is almost 400,000 people, most of whom have already left this country, going to one of the EU countries. An estimated 93,000 refugees from Ukraine remain in Moldova. About 380,000 fled to Hungary and less than 300,000 to Slovakia.
More than 10 million people, or about a quarter of the country’s total population, are estimated to have fled their homes in Ukraine. According to the International Organization for Immigration, as of mid-March, almost 6.48 million people had “internal migrations” in Ukraine, with 90 percent of the refugees being women and children.
Extraordinary meeting of the Security Council
The United Kingdom, which chairs the UN Security Council this month, convened a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the massacres in Bucha, Ukraine, British Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward tweeted.
– This weekend, in the terrible footage and reports from Bucha, we saw how unarmed Ukrainian civilians were shot with their hands tied behind their backs. More than 800 bodies were left in the street or thrown into mass graves. The women were raped in front of their children, Woodward said in a video posted to her Twitter account.
She stressed that evidence of Russian war crimes committed in Bucha will be discussed at the meeting on Tuesday. “We will use our presidency (of the Security Council) to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness,” she said.