Thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing war with and started arriving into neighboring countries, mainly Moldova and Romania, while an estimated 100,000 have fled their homes and are uprooted in the country after the invasion, the UN refugee agency said Thursday. The countries on the 's eastern flank, once part of the Moscow-led Warsaw Pact and now members of , are bracing for many more Ukrainians, setting up reception points and sending troops towards the borders to provide assistance. Among them, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania all share land borders with . 'If Russia continues down this path, it could, according to our estimates, create a new refugee crisis - one of the largest facing the world today - with as many as five million more people displaced by Russia's war of choice and putting pressure on Ukraine's neighbors,' US Ambassador to the United Nation Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned Wednesday.
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