More than 5 million Ukrainians are refugees, about 16 million need humanitarian assistance - UN

UN Coordinator in Ukraine Osnat Lubrani made an announcement. 

According to UN estimates alone, almost 16 million Ukrainians need food, water, and medical care.

"More than 6 million people are still internally displaced. Some 5 million managed to return, but many know they might be forced to flee again. More than 5.3 million became refugees in other countries, a situation which I am sure most of them had never even imagined they would face," she said.

According to UN data, almost 5,000 civilians were killed and more than 5,000 were injured in Ukraine.

"It is not new for the mother of a 4-month-old baby I met when supporting the evacuations from Mariupol and Azovstal, who told me how she survived for months without seeing the sunlight, how she struggled to feed herself, how she and others had not enough clean water to drink. This is not new for the people of Donetsk, who over the past month, especially, have seen day after day their city being bombarded, their schools and hospitals destroyed and having to spend hours hiding. It is not new for the people of Kherson, mainly those who are desperate to leave the city, to find safety somewhere else but have been repeatedly prevented from doing so," said Lubrani.