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Ukrainian refugee crisis

Ukrainian refugee crisis
Part of humanitarian impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

A young Ukrainian refugee at Przemyśl train station in Poland
DateFebruary 2022–present
Location

An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 6 million refugees fleeing Ukraine are recorded across Europe,[1] while an estimated 8 million others had been displaced within the country by late May 2022.[needs update][2][3][4] Approximately one-quarter of the country's total population had left their homes in Ukraine by 20 March.[5] 90% of Ukrainian refugees are women and children, while most Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60 are banned from leaving the country.[6] By 24 March, more than half of all children in Ukraine had left their homes, of whom a quarter had left the country.[7][8] The invasion caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II and its aftermath,[9] is the first of its kind in Europe since the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, as well as the fourth largest refugee crisis in history,[10][11] and is the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century, with the highest refugee flight rate globally.[12][13]

The vast majority of refugees initially entered neighbouring countries to the west of Ukraine (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova).[14] Around 3 million people then moved further west to other European countries.[1][15] As of 18 July 2023, according to UNHCR data, the countries in which the largest numbers of Ukrainians had applied for asylum, or other temporary protection, were Poland (1.6 million), Germany (1 million) and the Czech Republic (0.54 million).[1] As of September 2022, Human Rights Watch documented that Ukrainian civilians were being forcibly transferred to Russia.[16] The UN Human Rights Office stated "There have been credible allegations of forced transfers of unaccompanied children to Russian occupied territory, or to the Russian Federation itself."[17][18] The United States Department of State estimated that at least 900,000 Ukrainian citizens have been forcibly relocated to Russia.[19] More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have returned to Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion.[1][20]

European Union (EU) countries bordering Ukraine have allowed entry to all Ukrainian refugees,[21] and the EU has invoked the Temporary Protection Directive which grants Ukrainians the right to stay, work, and study in any European Union member state for an initial period of one year.[22] Some non-European and Romani people have reported ethnic discrimination at the border.

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  3. ^ "Needs Growing for over 8 Million Internally Displaced in Ukraine".
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  7. ^ "UNICEF: more than half of children in Ukraine were forced to leave their homes". Meduza (in Russian). 24 March 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
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  12. ^ Beaumont, Peter (6 March 2022). "Ukraine has fastest-growing refugee crisis since second world war, says UN". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  13. ^ Keaten, Jamey (3 March 2022). "UN refugee agency: 1 million flee Ukraine in under a week". AP NEWS. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  14. ^ "UN-Angaben: 500.000 Menschen aus der Ukraine geflüchtet". Tagesschau.de. 28 February 2022. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Waves of Ukrainian Refugees Overwhelm Poland". BusinessHala. 10 March 2022. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  16. ^ "Forcible Transfer of Ukrainians to Russia". Human Rights Watch. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  17. ^ "Human rights concerns related to forced displacement in Ukraine". OHCHR. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  18. ^ "UN says 'credible' reports Ukraine children transferred to Russia". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  19. ^ "Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians forced to Russia, U.S. claims". POLITICO. Associated Press. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  20. ^ "'They thought we were crazy': Why millions of Ukrainian refugees are coming home". Grid. 18 July 2022. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  21. ^ "Information for people fleeing the war in Ukraine". European Commission. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  22. ^ "Ukraine: Council unanimously introduces temporary protection for persons fleeing the war". www.consilium.europa.eu. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

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