UN: 6.5m people displaced inside Ukraine in addition to refugees who have left

A Ukrainian refugee cries as she shelters in a school sports hall in eastern Poland (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The UN migration agency said on Friday that nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million who have already fled the country.

The estimates from the International Organisation for Migration suggests Ukraine is fast on course in just three weeks toward the levels of displacement from Syria’s devastating war, which has driven about 13 million people from their homes both in the country and abroad.