Brussels – In a survey made on 31 May 2025 by Eurostat, it was found that 4.28 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression were granted temporary protection status in the EU.
The three countries that accommodated them (in numbers) are: Germany (+3,485; +0.3%), Czechia (+3,075; +0.8%), and Spain (+2,110; +0.9%). The three largest declines were recorded in Bulgaria (-9,270;- 12.5%), France (-445;- 0.8%), and Slovakia (-155;- 0.1%). Compared to the end of April 2025, the total number of persons from Ukraine under temporary protection in the EU increased by 10,825 (+0.3%).
Compared to the population of each EU country, the highest ratio of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand persons was observed in Czechia (34.3), Poland (26.9) and Estonia (24.9), while the average EU-wide figure was 9.5 per thousand persons.
As of 31 May 2025, Ukrainian nationals accounted for over 98.4 per cent of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU. Adult women accounted for almost half (44.6%) of the beneficiaries. Minors accounted for almost a third (31.4%), while adult men were less than a quarter (23.9%) of the total.
On 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted a decision to extend temporary protection for these persons from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.
English version by the Translation Service of Withub
