Five Million Ukrainian Refugees from Russian Aggression Sets a Post-War Record

Five million Ukrainians have fled Ukraine because of Russian Federation aggression against their country, which is a record since the Second World War. This figure is in addition to several million Ukrainians who have been internally displaced. The refugees, who are mostly women and children, have fled to European States. The Europeans have been more welcoming than they have been to refugees and migrants from Asia and Africa. The previous record was set last decade by Syrians fleeing the tyrannical regime of Bashar Assad during the ongoing Syrian Civil War that has claimed over half a million lives as the Syrian people rose up against Assad, who was used barrel bombs and chemical weapons against civilians. Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, an ex-Soviet intelligence officer, was thus behind both refugee crises, as he had backed the terrorist-sponsoring Assad, who is also supported by Islamist Iran and the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization, Hezbollah. In both cases, civilians fled Russian bombing that deliberately targeted civilian areas. Putin, who laments the breakup of the Soviet Union, deliberately provoked the Syrian refugee crisis to weaken and divide Europeans.