Checkpoint Ukrainian Guards assaulting Refugees at the Ukraine - Poland border

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, expressed dismay Tuesday over reports that foreigners fleeing Ukraine amid its war with Russia are experiencing mistreatment and pleaded for more humanity and compassion for non-Europeans and refugees from other nations.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told journalists that 677,000 people had fled Ukraine since Russia launched its war/[operation] there on Feb. 24.

Grandi also spoke out about reports that have emerged of discrimination against non-Ukrainian or non-European refugees at some entry points and people's reference to them using discriminatory or racist terminology.