Nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine since Russia's invasion, according to the UN migration agency.
A Ukrainian elderly woman is seen on the empty street in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 16, 2022. Photo: Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine since Russia's invasion, the UN migration agency"The group agreed that the figures provided by IOM are a good representation of the scale of internal displacement in Ukraine — calculated to stand at 6.48 million internally displaced persons in Ukraine as of March 16th," the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs wrote.
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