Close to 3 million have fled fighting in Ukraine

About 2.97 million people have so far left Ukraine, data from the UN Refugee Agency showed. It is basing its aid plans on 4 million refugees but has said the figure will likely increase.

"We left Kharkiv for Kirovohrad," she said at the train station of Przemysl, the nearest town to Poland's busiest border crossing with Ukraine."We wanted to stay there. We did not want to go abroad." But a significant number of refugees are starting to move further west, with 300,000 individuals having gone so far to Western Europe, the UNHCR said on Tuesday.

Pulling suitcases and carrying backpacks, they were met by Romanian firefighters and volunteers, who carried their belongings to buses transporting them onwards. Russia denies targeting civilians, describing its actions as a"special military operation" to demilitarise and"denazify" Ukraine. Ukraine and Western allies call this a baseless pretext for Russia's invasion of a democratic country of 44 million.In Moldova, one of Europe's poorest countries, some refugees were returning home to Ukraine, either to fetch more belongings or hoping to return for good.

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