The current war has created Europe’s largest refugee crisis since WWII.
The United Nations’ refugee agency estimates 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country since last month’s Russian invasion. The announcement comes a day after Russia claimed to be pulling troops back from Kiev during peace talks in Turkey—a move Ukraine has described as a regrouping. “That is why we cannot go back to Kharkiv,” refugee Nikolay Nazarov,23, told the Associated Press after crossing the border into Poland. “We are afraid of a new phase of war in eastern Ukraine.