The number of refugees from Ukraine who went to other countries exceeded six million, and over 10 million people were displaced within the borders of Ukraine. Most Ukrainian refugees went to Poland (more than three million), then to Romania, Russia, Hungary, Moldova...
The media representative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) office in Belgrade, Mirjana Milenkovski, told FoNet that, according to the data of the Commissionerate for Migration and Refugees, there are about 7.000 refugees from Ukraine living in Serbia, and most of them are in private accommodation, and that according to the data of state authorities people from Ukraine mostly see Serbia as a transit country.
A small part, 68 of them, is located in the center in Vranje, which is one of the two centers designated for the reception of Ukrainian refugees. Milenkovski says that the center in Vranje is mostly women with children and a number of elderly people, that services are available to them, that 13 children go to primary school and two to high school, that conditions are improving every day and that donors are helping.
According to her, the situation in Serbia has calmed down when it comes to refugees, and now on a two-week level, a much smaller number of people enter the country - no more than 400. There are about 4.500 people in the reception centers and about 1.200 more outside the centers, and outside centers are people who only want to pass through Serbia in order to reach one of the EU countries. Milenkovski said that the most numerous people in the centers are Afghans, then Pakistanis, Burundians, Syrians and other nations, and that these are people who are there mostly with their families.
Milena Milenkovski pointed out that the numbers of migrants and refugees in the world are unprecedented since the Second World War and that the number has reached 100 million, which is a shame for the human race. "We have never had this amount of human suffering. The numbers are devastating, shocking," she believes.
She warned that, apart from the crisis in Ukraine, there are other refugee crises in the world that should not be forgotten. "We have a crisis in Venezuela, over six million Venezuelans have fled, the crisis in Syria has been going on for 12 years, Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan... These are all figures of over five million and more displaced people," she pointed out and stated that they are currently active 23 refugee crises in which UNHCR helps.
And while the Ukrainian crisis is currently the largest in the world in terms of the number of refugees and internally displaced persons, according to the United Nations, Yemen is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. The war in that country started in 2014, inside the country the Houthis are fighting against, conditionally speaking, the legitimate government, and that government is supported by air attacks by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia; the United Arab Emirates is also in the coalition, until recently the United States of America and Great Britain also actively participated in it.
While news of the destruction of the country, which was one of the poorest in the world even before the war, follows routine statements that the Houthis are supported by Iran, the stark figures say that more than 233.000 people have died in the conflict since the start of the war, that the number of displaced people since the start of the war has risen to 4,1 ,30 million, that of the 22 million inhabitants of Yemen, more than XNUMX million need help and protection. The bitter irony is that hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia have been coming to Yemen for years, which speaks volumes about the situation in those countries.
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