The U.N. now projects more than 8 million people will flee Ukraine as refugees
The number is more than double what the U.N.'s refugee agency projected in February when Russia invaded the country. The vast majority of those who have already left are women and children.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) predicted that some 4 million people would flee the country throughout the course of the war.
In fact, that's how many Ukrainians left their homeland in last week.
