Escaping war: ‘We are already reaching the scenario of four million refugees that we published only two weeks ago’
The Irish-born head of policy for the EU office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says the difference in this crisis is the speed at which refugees from Ukraine have come into Europe
Before Christmas, Sophie Magennis and the UN agency she works for were looking at the growing threat of a Russian invasion in Ukraine and contingency planning for a “worst case scenario” of two million people leaving the country.
“In the days after the invasion on February 24, we realised those numbers were going to be reached very quickly,” she told the Business Post in an interview.
Irish-born Magennis, 49, is the head of policy for ...
