The United Nations has asserted that the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia could churn out additional three million refugees in 2022.
The world organisation assertion is an update to the initial projection made by The UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
The UNHCR has now estimated that a total of 8.3 million people will flee Ukraine this year.
A UNHCR spokesperson in Geneva on made this known on Tuesday.
According to the spokesperson, nearly 5.3 million refugees presently have left Ukraine for one of its neighbouring countries.
UNHCR described the speed with which the Ukraine refugee crisis was unfolding as unprecedented in recent times.
Globally, only Syria has been the source of more refugees than Ukraine, the spokesperson said, stressing that that was during the course of a far longer period of time.
The UNHCR said that it required an additional 1.85 billion dollars in funding by the end of the year to support Ukrainian refugees in Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Belarus