Border Crossing Data Shows Some Refugees Are Returning To Ukraine
Data from the Ukrainian borders suggests that a substantial number of refugees that had previously fled Ukraine have now returned home — if only for a short trip.
Data from the UN refugee agency, originally reported on by The Economist, reveals that the gap between the number of people leaving Ukraine and the number of people entering Ukraine has narrowed. Indeed, throughout the first two weeks of June roughly 30,000 people have entered Ukraine per day, mostly staying west where the fighting with Russia has been more muted, suggesting Ukrainians are eager to return home as soon as they can.
Even with the number of returning refugees going up, there's still a net exodus of people leaving the country — although it's more of a trickle at 15,000-20,000 people per day compared to the hundreds of thousands that fled in the early days of the invasion.
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