Article 5X1CZ ‘We need safe access’: aid groups in Ukraine struggle amid warning 7m could be displaced

‘We need safe access’: aid groups in Ukraine struggle amid warning 7m could be displaced

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Lizzy Davies
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As refugees crossing borders are met with a huge relief effort, aid workers are struggling to get supplies to the millions in need in the country

Aid workers are demanding safe, unimpeded" access to hundreds of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in Ukraine, amid warnings that the number of people displaced within the country by the Russian invasion could reach nearly 7 million.

On Friday, the UN said 1.85 million people had been displaced internally by the conflict, a figure widely believed to be an underestimate in a highly volatile and rapidly changing security situation.

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