In Kyiv, UN migration chief warns donor fatigue could compound problems


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  • Friday, 12 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: Refugees from Ukraine walk on a platform after they left a train from Warsaw, Poland, at Berlin's Hauptbahnhof central station, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Berlin, Germany March 29, 2022. Picture taken March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) - Fatigue among donors could compound the issues created by the mass displacement of Ukrainians after Russia's invasion, making the problem more expensive to deal with in the long run, the U.N. migration agency chief said in Kyiv on Thursday.

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered the biggest refugee crisis in Europe this century, with 6.5 million Ukrainian refugees having been recorded globally and 3.7 million displaced within Ukraine, according to U.N. data.

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