EU grants temporary protection status to 4.31 million Ukrainians

Brussels – On 30 June 2025, 4.31 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression benefited from a temporary protection status in the Union. 

The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1,196,645 people; 27.8 percent of the total), Poland (992,505; 23.0 percent), and the Czech Republic (378,420; 8.8 percent). 

Compared to the end of May 2025, at the end of June, the total number of Ukrainian citizens under temporary protection in the EU increased by 32,940 (+0.8 percent). 

The number of persons under temporary protection rose in all EU countries, with the three most significant increases in absolute terms observed in Poland (+5,660), the Czech Republic (+4,745), and Germany (+3,805). 

The highest ratio of beneficiaries of temporary protection per thousand persons was recorded in the Czech Republic (34.7), Poland (27.2), and Estonia (25.1), while the corresponding figure at the EU level was 9.6 per thousand persons.

On 30 June 2025, Ukrainian citizens accounted for over 98.4 percent of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up 44.7 percent of the beneficiaries. Minors accounted for almost a third (31.2 percent), while adult men made up nearly a quarter (24.1 percent) of the total.

The data, Eurostat points out, refer to the attribution of temporary protection status based on the Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022, establishing the existence of a mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to Russia’s war of aggression, and introducing temporary protection. 

On 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted a decision to extend temporary protection for these people from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.