Russia-Ukraine updates: Moscow warns Kyiv over attacking Crimea

The United States envoy to the United Nations has blamed Russia for a “record-breaking” increase in the number of refugees due to its war in Ukraine.

“President Putin’s unjustifiable war in Ukraine is primarily responsible for the record-breaking increase in the number of refugees,” said Linda Thomas Greenfield in a statement on World Refugee Day.

“The destruction of the Kakhovka dam two weeks ago in Ukraine’s Kherson Region has placed countless more in urgent need.”

As the fighting in Sudan continues to trigger massive movements of people, the world is facing an “unprecedented” global displacement crisis as war, conflict, disasters and political instability are forcing record numbers of people to flee their homes, Greenfield said.