1 Million children flee Ukraine amid Russian invasion.

After bombs began falling in her hometown of Kharkiv, Annamaria Maslovska left her friends, her toys, and her life in Ukraine and set off on a days-long journey along with her mom towards security within the West.

After lastly crossing the Hungarian border by train together with hundreds of other Ukrainian refugees, the 10-year-old Maslovska mentioned she had begun to fret about her friends in Kharkiv after the messages she sent to them on Viber went unanswered.

“I actually miss them because I can not contact them, they simply read my messages and that is all. I actually fear, because I do not know where they’re,” she mentioned in clear English from inside the train station on the border city of Zahony.

Annamaria, who was raised alone by her mom, is one among more than 1,000,000 kids who’ve fled Ukraine within the  two weeks since Russia first invaded the nation, one thing UNICEF spokesperson James Elder called “a dark historical first.” That implies that youngsters signify around half of the more than 2 million folks that have fled the conflict, an exodus that the UN refugee agency has called the fastest-growing refugee disaster in Europe since World Warfare II.