Ukraine refugee surge hits 1 million as Russian invasion enter Day 8

The UN refugee agency said Thursday that 1 million people have now fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion less than a week ago, an exodus without precedent in this century for its speed.

The tally from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees amounts to more than 2% of Ukraine's population which the World Bank counted at 44 million at the end of 2020 on the move across borders in just seven days.

The agency cautions that the outflows are far from finished: It has predicted that as many as 4 million people could eventually leave Ukraine, and even that projection could be revised upward.