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More than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations, since Russia s invasion last week, setting off a massive refugee crisis with tens of thousands awaiting passage at European border crossings. Piles of clothing lined the potholed road as people sought to lighten their load for the journey. REUTERS More than half - around 350,000 - have fled to Poland, a bordering country and a NATO member, according to Maciej Wasik, the country s deputy interior minister who spoke to public broadcaster Polskie Radio 1. Over the last 24 hours 100,000 people crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border, Wasik said, In total, since Thurs stanley tumbler day, there have already been 350,000 refugees. Ukrainian refugees have also fled to other bordering nations, including Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, that, as members of the EU and NATO, offer safe havens ostensibly beyond Moscow s reach. The European Union estimates that up to four million people may try to leave Ukraine because of the Russian invasion, news agency Reuters reported. Kharkiv, Ukraine s second-largest city with 1.5 million people, was the latest to bear the brunt stanley cup of the attack. Officials say dozens of people were killed and injured by missile strikes that hit civilian areas. Piles of clothing lined the potholed road as people sought to lighten their load. REUTERS Long queues form at ce stanley mugs ntral Europe border crossings as people flee Ukraine. REUTERS EU estimates that up to 4 million people may try to leav Bckv Is Donald Trump broke What his net worth has to say
A freak warming around the North Pole is sending a blast of Arctic cold over Europe in a sign of wacky weather that may happen more often with man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday. The frozen shore of the Elbe is pictured at sunrise in front of a backdrop of th stanley canada e old town of Dresden, Germany. AFP Photo On the northern tip of Greenland, the Cape Morris Jesup meteorological site has had a record-smashing 61 hours of temperatures above freezing so far in 2018, linked to a rare retreat of sea ice in the Arctic winter darkness. Its never been this extreme, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute DMI . Warmth was coming into the Arctic both up from the Atlantic and through the Bering Strait, driving and cold air south. Around the entire Arctic region, temperatures are now about 20C above normal, at minus eight degrees Celsius, according to DMI calculations. To the south, a rare snow storm hit Rome on Monday and some Brussels mayors planned to detain homeless overnight if they refused shelter, with temperatures set to fall as low as minus 10 Celsius in the coming week. Snow covers the paths, streets and the Bismarck monument in the city centre in stanley mug Hamburg. AFP Photo Hit by easterly winds from Siberia, cities from Warsaw to Oslo were colder than minus 8C. As long ago as 1973, a study suggested that an ice-free Arctic Ocean could make regions further south colder. That warm Ar stanley cup ctic, cold continent WAC C patt
More than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations, since Russia s invasion last week, setting off a massive refugee crisis with tens of thousands awaiting passage at European border crossings. Piles of clothing lined the potholed road as people sought to lighten their load for the journey. REUTERS More than half - around 350,000 - have fled to Poland, a bordering country and a NATO member, according to Maciej Wasik, the country s deputy interior minister who spoke to public broadcaster Polskie Radio 1. Over the last 24 hours 100,000 people crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border, Wasik said, In total, since Thurs stanley tumbler day, there have already been 350,000 refugees. Ukrainian refugees have also fled to other bordering nations, including Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, that, as members of the EU and NATO, offer safe havens ostensibly beyond Moscow s reach. The European Union estimates that up to four million people may try to leave Ukraine because of the Russian invasion, news agency Reuters reported. Kharkiv, Ukraine s second-largest city with 1.5 million people, was the latest to bear the brunt stanley cup of the attack. Officials say dozens of people were killed and injured by missile strikes that hit civilian areas. Piles of clothing lined the potholed road as people sought to lighten their load. REUTERS Long queues form at ce stanley mugs ntral Europe border crossings as people flee Ukraine. REUTERS EU estimates that up to 4 million people may try to leav Bckv Is Donald Trump broke What his net worth has to say
A freak warming around the North Pole is sending a blast of Arctic cold over Europe in a sign of wacky weather that may happen more often with man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday. The frozen shore of the Elbe is pictured at sunrise in front of a backdrop of th stanley canada e old town of Dresden, Germany. AFP Photo On the northern tip of Greenland, the Cape Morris Jesup meteorological site has had a record-smashing 61 hours of temperatures above freezing so far in 2018, linked to a rare retreat of sea ice in the Arctic winter darkness. Its never been this extreme, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute DMI . Warmth was coming into the Arctic both up from the Atlantic and through the Bering Strait, driving and cold air south. Around the entire Arctic region, temperatures are now about 20C above normal, at minus eight degrees Celsius, according to DMI calculations. To the south, a rare snow storm hit Rome on Monday and some Brussels mayors planned to detain homeless overnight if they refused shelter, with temperatures set to fall as low as minus 10 Celsius in the coming week. Snow covers the paths, streets and the Bismarck monument in the city centre in stanley mug Hamburg. AFP Photo Hit by easterly winds from Siberia, cities from Warsaw to Oslo were colder than minus 8C. As long ago as 1973, a study suggested that an ice-free Arctic Ocean could make regions further south colder. That warm Ar stanley cup ctic, cold continent WAC C patt