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Almost 3m people have fled Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s war has created Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the second world war

“More is to come; worse is to come,” said Ylva Johansson, the EU’s home-affairs commissioner, on March 8th. A week later, the number of people who have fled Ukraine has reached almost 3m. Some 2.3m have entered EU countries, almost as many as in 2015 and 2016 combined, during the height of the Syrian war.

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