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Hundreds of thousands more refugees expected from Ukraine: Norwegian Refugee Council

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epa09887017 A picture taken during a visit to Mariupol organized by the Russian military shows local people walk on a road to the direction of the Russian border, outside Mariupol, Ukraine, 12 April 2022. For more than a month, hostilities have continued in the city. There is no water, electricity, gas or communications. Shops, pharmacies and hospitals are closed. 250 thousand inhabitants left the city, about 300 thousand still remain. During the hostilities, up to 70 percent of the housing stock of Mariupol was destroyed and five thousand residents of the city was killed said the new mayor of the city Konstantin Ivashchenko. On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country, a huge flow of refugees, and multiple sanctions against Russia. EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY

GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council said on Monday he anticipates another wave of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine in Europe over the winter, because of “unliveable” conditions.

“Nobody knows how many but there will be hundreds of thousands more as the horrific and unlawful bombing of civilian infrastructure makes life unliveable in too many places,” Jan Egeland told Reuters by phone after returning from a trip to Ukraine earlier this month. 

“So I fear that the crisis in Europe will deepen and that will overshadow equally crises in other places of the world,” he said.

(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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