More than 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine, UN agency says

People, mostly women and children, try to get onto a train bound for Lviv, at the Kyiv railway station, Ukraine (Andriy Dubchak/AP)

More than 1.2 million people have left Ukraine since the fighting began, according to the UN refugee agency.

More than 165,000 people left the country on Thursday, down slightly from Wednesday’s count and well under the nearly 200,000 on Tuesday, which amounted to the peak one-day outflow of people from Ukraine since the conflict began, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.