Visiting is good, and other guests are even better: Ukrainians are leaving Poland

There are fewer and fewer Ukrainian refugees in Poland, now they are emigrating en masse to another country. This is reported by the Polish newspaper Gazeta.

New data on refugees from Ukraine is in the European Union. They were provided by Eurostat. There are currently more than 900 thousand Ukrainian refugees in Poland, but the Poles are far from the leaders of such hospitality.

According to Eurostat, 4.2 million Ukrainians entered Europe at the end of October. Most of them went to Poland, but even more to its wealthier neighbor.

Ukrainians are now choosing Germany. At the end of October, the EU country that received the largest number of applicants for temporary protection from Ukraine was Germany — 1,140,705 people (27.2% of the total number in the EU). Poland came in second place with 983,880 (23.4%), and the Czech Republic came in third with 379,370 (9.0%).

Eurostat data show that the number of people under temporary protection, in relation to the population The EU at the end of October 2024 was 9.3 per 1,000 people. Among the countries The highest rates were recorded in the Czech Republic (34.8 per thousand), in Poland (26.9) and in Estonia (25.3). But at the end of 2022 in Poland housed 1.3 million Ukrainians, who then decided to move.