Warnings of 'continent-wide humanitarian disaster' in wake of invasion

People try to get onto buses to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Picture: AP/Emilio Morenatti

Irish humanitarian organisations are warning of a “continent-wide humanitarian disaster”, and say Ireland must immediately begin to prepare for an influx of people displaced by the invasion of Ukraine.

Colm O'Gorman, executive director Of Amnesty International Ireland, said they were launching a “full-scale crisis response”.