More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine as food crisis looms

The number of Ukrainians fleeing abroad reached 4 million, United Nations' Refugee Agency (UNHCR) commissioner Filippo Grandi confirmed on Wednesday, as he met with refugees in Lviv.

Earlier on Wednesday, the UNHCR said 4,019,287 people had left Ukraine. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the fighting has displaced more than 10 million people and forced millions to flee the country, according to the UN refugee agency.

Most have arrived in Poland, which says it has welcomed more than two million people so far. Ukraine's other EU neighbours Romania, Slovakia and Hungary have also seen high arrivals of Ukrainian refugees, the vast majority of whom are women and children.

Plus, the UN food chief warned on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine was threatening to devastate the World Food Programme's efforts to feed some 125 million people globally because Ukraine had gone "from the breadbasket of the world to breadlines."

"It's not just decimating dynamically Ukraine and the region, but it will have global context impact beyond anything we've seen since World War Two," WFP executive director David Beasley told the 15-member UN Security Council. He said that 50 per cent of the grain bought by WFP comes from Ukraine "so you can only assume the devastation that this is going to have on our operations alone."

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