Hundreds of Latin Americans return from Ukraine after invasion

Bolivians and Ukrainian residents gather outside the Russian Embassy during an anti-war protest following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in La Paz, Bolivia March 3, 2022. Picture taken March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Manuel Claure

QUITO (Reuters) - Close to 250 Ecuadoreans, many of them university students, arrived in the country on Friday after fleeing Ukraine following Russia's invasion, joining hundreds of other Latin Americans who have evacuated.

Thousands of people are believed to have been killed and more than 1 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Feb. 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.