In September, the largest number of Ukrainians received temporary protection in the European Union since 2023

In September 2025, the European Union countries issued the largest number of decisions on granting temporary protection to Ukrainians from 2023 in one month. Eurostat noted that this coincided with the opening of borders for young people aged 18-22.

Source: “European truth” with reference to the press service of Eurostat

Details: In September 2025, EU countries adopted 79,205 new decisions on granting temporary protection to those who left Ukraine due to the war.

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This is a 49% increase from August 2025 and the most decisions in a month since August 2023.

The communique notes that this peak coincided with the adoption in August 2025 of a decision to open borders for 18-22-year-old youths in Ukraine. At the same time, it is not specified whether the growth was mainly due to this category.

According to the results of September, the number of Ukrainians with temporary protection in the EU increased by 49,555 people, or 1.2%.

The largest increase of Ukrainians with temporary protection was observed in Poland (+12,960; +1.3%), Germany (+7,585; +0.6%) and the Czech Republic (+3,455; +0.9%), and the decrease occurred only in France (-240; -0.4%).

Relative to the population of the host country, the largest number of Ukrainians are in the Czech Republic, Poland and Estonia (35.7, 27.6 and 25.5 per thousand population, while the EU average is 9.6 per thousand).

Among the recipients of temporary protection, more than 98% are citizens of Ukraine. 44% are women, 31% are minors, 25.1% are adult men. The largest number of Ukrainians with temporary protection currently live in Germany (over 1.2 million, 28.3% of the total number in the EU), Poland (over a million, 23.5%) and the Czech Republic (over 389 thousand; 9.0%).

Prehistory:

• The Prime Minister of Bavaria, Germany, Markus Söder, has stepped up calls to limit the entry of young Ukrainian men, demanding that the EU pressure Ukraine on this issue.
• One of the studies shows that more than half of Ukrainians with temporary protection are not very satisfied with life in Germany.

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