Actors Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are promising to match every donation up to $1 million for refugees fleeing war in Ukraine, the couple said on social media.
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- Actors Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds promise to match every donation up to $1 million for refugees fleeing war in Ukraine.
- About 368,000 refugees have managed to leave, the U.N.
- refugee agency reports.
- EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson says EU needs to prepare for millions of refugees to arrive.
- Almost 3 million people in Ukraine will need humanitarian assistance this year, the UN agency says, and almost 3 million will need assistance this month.Ukrainians crowded onto trains and waited in long lines for hours to leave the country after Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine on Thursday, UN said Sunday.
- It said 2 million people had left Ukraine even before Russia troops invaded last week.