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The UN refugee agency said yesterday more than six million people had fled Ukraine, more than half of them going to neighbouring Poland.
Women and children make up 90 percent of the refugees, UNHCR said.
The United States yesterday accused Russia of forcibly taking tens of thousands of Ukrainians to "filtration camps" in Russia or Russian-controlled territory where they are subjected to "brutal interrogations".
"These actions amount to war crimes," said Michael Carpenter, the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
"We must not allow this evil to stand."
The remarks backed Kyiv's allegation that 1.2 million people have been taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas.
Fighting in Ukraine has been concentrated in the south and east since Russia abandoned attempts to seize the capital.
Ukraine's presidency said shelling continued throughout Lugansk part of the Donbas region where its forces are fiercely opposing Russian troops and Kremlin-backed separatists.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday that Russian forces had destroyed 570 healthcare facilities.
"What for? It's nonsense. It's barbarity," he said.
In the northeastern region of Chernigiv, three people were killed and 12 others wounded early yesterday in a strike on a school in Novgorod-Siversky, the emergency services said.
In the southern port city of Mariupol, troops at the Azovstal steelworks have been holding out against Russian bombardment for weeks, refusing demands to surrender.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said "difficult talks" were under way on the evacuation of 38 seriously wounded soldiers.
Russia's army said it struck Donetsk and Kharkiv yesterday, killing more than 170 people and destroying Ukrainian drones and rockets.
Source:- NDTV
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