UNHCR: This may be 'Europe's largest refugee crisis this century'
A girl walks among hundreds of beds inside a sports hall used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian invasion at the border crossing town of Medyka, Poland, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. All day long, as trains and buses bring people fleeing Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns, they carry not just Ukrainian fleeing a homeland under attack but large numbers of other citizens who had made Ukraine their home and whose fates too are now uncertain. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

UNHCR: This may be 'Europe's largest refugee crisis this century'

Refugees from Ukraine line up to get in to Poland at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on February 28. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images)

There are now more than half a million refugees from Ukraine in neighboring countries, the UN said Monday, with people desperately heading west towards central Europe after Russia’s invasion last week.

Here’s a snapshot of the situation at Ukraine’s borders:

Poland: More than 100,000 people crossed from Ukraine into Poland on Monday, according to Poland’s border guard, the highest figure received by Ukraine’s EU neighbors since the invasion began.

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