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The number of people fleeing Ukraine has surpassed 5 million

The U.N. had initially estimated that 4 million Ukrainians would flee Russia's war — a number that was exceeded last month. Overall, more than 10 million people have been displaced by the conflict.
A woman and a child, along with other refugees from Ukraine, wait in the ticket hall of the railway station in Przemysl in eastern Poland.

More than 5 million people have fled Ukraine in the nearly two months since Russia's full-fledged invasion began, according to a tracker from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Filippo Grandi, the U.N. refugee.

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