Ukrainian refugee killed when bus she was in veered off motorway in Italy after she fled Russian invasion

A UKRAINIAN woman has died as she fled the Russian invasion after a bus carrying around 50 refugees veered off a motorway and overturned in Italy.

Several people are also reportedly injured following the crash early this morning on the A14 highway in the Emilia-Romagna region.

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Firefighters used two cranes in an operation to set the bus upright and free those trapped inside.

According to local news outlets, the rest of those aboard were safety evacuated

Italian state radio said there were several injured in the accident on the A14 autostrada near Forli’, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region in northeastern Italy. It said the rest of those aboard were safely evacuated.

The bus landed on its side on a grassy slope just beyond a highway guardrail and near a farm field close to the town of Forli in northeastern Italy.

Italy’s Interior Ministry said the bus had set out from Ukraine and was heading south to Pescara, an Adriatic port city, when it overturned.

The passengers were taken to a nearby police barracks for initial assistance, and would later resume their journey, the ministry said.

What caused the bus to overturn was under investigation.

Some 35,000 Ukrainians refugees who have fled the war raging on for the 18th day in their homeland have entered Italy, most of them through its northeastern border with Slovenia.

According to the UN’s refugee agency, around 2.6million Ukrainians have evacuated the country since Putin invaded late in February.

But it’s been warned Britain and the EU may have to welcome 15million Ukrainian refugees if Putin keeps up his bloody campaign of terror.

The United Nations fears the number of people displaced by the increasingly brutal invasion will be three times higher than expected.