Europe prepares for humanitarian crisis
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With estimates of three to five million people likely to flee a full-scale war with Russia, Ukraine’s neighbours are preparing for an influx of refugees
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REFUGEE NUMBERS EXPECTED

EU members 
Non-EU

CZECH REP. “1,000s”

Kyiv
UKRAINE
1.5m internally displaced since 2014 from eastern Ukraine and Crimea

RUSSIA Moscow
“Several thousand” elderly people, women and children evacuated from Donetsk and Luhansk to Rostov


200km 125 miles
BALTIC SEA
Kaliningrad (RUSSIA)
POLAND
ESTONIA 2,000
LITHUANIA 8,000
LATVIA 10,000
BELARUS


SLOVAKIA 30,000
HUNGARY “Tens of 1,000s”

500,000

ROMANIA

BULGARIA

Rostov
Held by pro-Russian separatists

Up to 1 million

Claimed by separatists, held by Ukraine

MOLDOVA “Tens of 1,000s” 

Crimea
BLACK SEA
TURKEY

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EUROPEAN UNION: Ukrainians travel visa-free to EU. Financial support for member states and assistance from EU Asylum Agency, Europol and Frontex
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Sources: UNHCR, Reuters, BBC, Spectator (Slovakia), LRT © GRAPHIC NEWS