A Million Children Have Fled Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven more than 2 million people out of the country, according to figures tracked by the United Nations refugee agency. The exodus is historic, U.N. officials said: The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine in less than two weeks is equal to the flow of mainly Syrian refugees into Europe in 2015 and 2016.

Among those who have fled Ukraine are 1 million children, according to James Elder, a spokesman for UNICEF.

Here’s what the scene looked like at one train station in Ukraine where women and children said goodbye to those staying behind, including the men fighting the invasion.

George Keburia says goodbye to his children and wife, Maya, as they board a train to Lviv at the station in Odessa, Ukraine || Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

A child is carried on board as Ukrainian women and children, along with some men who came to say goodbye before going back to fight, rush for a train to Lviv from the station in Odessa || Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

Children look outside a train window at the station in Odessa || Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

Up to 4 million people may have fled Ukraine by the end of the war, according to a United Nations estimate || Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

A child is carried at the train station in Odessa || Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

About a quarter of the 2 million refugees who have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion left in just two days || Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

Among those who have fled Ukraine are 1 million children, according to James Elder, a spokesman for UNICEF.

Here’s what the scene looked like at one train station in Ukraine where women and children said goodbye to those staying behind, including the men fighting the invasion.

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