Kyiv: One million people have now fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion less than a week ago, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. There were 8,54,000 internally displaced people in Ukraine before the recent events. The UNHCR has declared Ukraine a Level 3 emergency, the highest level they have.

In just one week, we have seen the departure of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring nations, "UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tweeted, imploring the country's "weapons to fall silent."

The UN refugee agency's chief is planning to visit Moldova, Romania, and Poland in the coming days, these are three of the countries receiving the inflow of refugees. By Wednesday at 3 p.m. local time, more than 500,000 people had entered Poland from Ukraine, according to Polish border guards.

UN officials and others have complimented Ukraine's neighbours for opening homes, fitness centres, and other facilities to accommodate the incoming refugees.

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The daily numbers revealed the evacuation's lightning speeds: Following the departure of more than 82,000 individuals on the first day of the Russian invasion on February 24, each day following that recorded at least 117,000 new refugees, reaching a peak of nearly 200,000 on Tuesday alone, according to the most recent UNHCR figure. Some long-term personnel who have dealt with refugee crises claimed they had never seen anything like this migration.

Syria's civil war, which broke out in 2011, continues to have the largest refugee outflows, with nearly 5.7 million people fleeing the country, according to UNHCR figures. Even at the fastest rate of flight out of Syria, it took at least three months for one million refugees to leave the country in early 2013.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian and other migrants, most of whom had been in Turkey, came to Europe two years later, causing chaos in the European Union over how to respond, as well as fights and pushbacks at several national borders.

Russia seizes Kherson: 

Local sources said on Wednesday night that Russian soldiers had seized the Ukrainian city of Kherson, the first major city to lose since Moscow's invasion. Gennady Lakhuta, the regional administration's head, said the invaders are in all parts of the city and are very dangerous.

The Ukrainian port city of Berdiansk is already under the control of Russian forces, while Mariupoul responding to the attacks said the city’s mayor, Vadim Boichenko. Russian troops continue to bombard the second biggest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv.