“I have worked in refugee emergencies for almost 40 years, and rarely have I seen an exodus as rapid as this one,” Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said in a statement Thursday.
this week during a 20-hour wait at the Ukraine-Romania border, “and barely giving us a chance to cross.” The U.N.’s Grandi acknowledged instances in which non-white refugees had faced “different treatment” as they attempted to escape and called in a press conference Tuesday for countries to provide equal assistance to all.
, Kherson, on Wednesday. “International solidarity has been heartwarming,” Grandi said Thursday. “But nothing—nothing—can replace the need for the guns to be silenced; for dialogue and diplomacy to succeed. Peace is the only way to halt this tragedy.”
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