The number of refugees who have flooded out of Ukraine is nearing four million, but data shows fewer people have crossed the border in recent days, officials said Monday.
Border guards, aid agencies and refugees said Russia's unpredictable war on Ukraine offered few signs as to whether it's just a pause or a permanent drop-off.
In the first two weeks after Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, about 2.5 million people in Ukraine's pre-war population of 44 million left the country to avoid the bombs and bloodshed. In the second two weeks, the number of refugees was roughly half that.
The total exodus through Sunday now stands at 3.87 million, according to the latest tally announced Monday from UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency.
In the previous 24 hours, only 45,000 people crossed Ukraine's borders to seek safety, the slowest one-day count yet.
But Alex Mundt, the senior UNHCR emergency coordinator in Poland, said there was no certainty the numbers would continue to fall.
"We hope that hopefully the trend of new arrivals will decrease," he said. "But I don't think there's any guarantee of that until there's a political solution on that side."
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