Ukraine has taken in fewer than 2,400 refugees during the war, according to the Migration Service
Since the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine has not become a country of mass refugee reception—as of the end of 2025, there were 2,378 refugees and persons granted subsidiary protection in the country.
This was reported by Natalia Naumenko, head of the State Migration Service.
According to her, between January and April 2026, only 16 applications from 19 people were submitted to Ukraine for refugee status or subsidiary protection—that is fewer than five people per month.
Also, since the beginning of the year, more than 3,000 foreigners and stateless persons have applied for permanent residence permits, and 7,600 for temporary residence permits. Family reunification remains the main reason for applying for these documents.
The State Migration Service emphasized that the total number of refugees and persons with subsidiary protection in Ukraine has remained virtually unchanged in recent years.
It should be noted that Lidiya Tkachenko, a leading research fellow at the M.V. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a candidate of economic sciences, believes that labor migrants are unlikely to come to Ukraine in the near future.
Large migration flows and declining birth rates during a full-scale war are exacerbating the demographic crisis in Ukraine year after year.
