ON THE UKRAINIAN-MOLDOVAN BORDER The war in Ukraine has set off the fastest mass migration in Europe in at least three decades, prompting comparisons with the Balkan wars of.
At least 660,000 people, mostly women and children, fled Ukraine in the five days after Russia invaded the most intense wave of European migration since at least the 1990s.
There was no sign of possible de-escalation on the sixth day of the invasion, as Russia appeared determined to toughen its tactics against a defiant neighbor.
The war in Ukraine has set off the fastest mass migration in Europe in at least three decades, prompting comparisons with the Balkan wars of the 1990s and providing echoes of the vast population displacement that followed World War II.