(Adnkronos) – In September 2025, EU countries issued 79,205 new decisions granting temporary protection to asylum seekers who fled Ukraine due to Russia’s war of aggression, marking a 49% increase compared to August 2025 and reaching the highest monthly total since August 2023. Eurostat announced this, highlighting that the increase follows the Ukrainian government’s decision, taken at the end of August 2025, to grant men aged between 18 and 22 the right to leave the country without impediments.
By the end of September 2025, a total of 4.3 million refugees from Ukraine had obtained temporary protection status in the EU. Compared to the end of August 2025, the total number increased by 49,555 (+1.2%). The EU countries hosting the highest number of people granted temporary protection status are Germany (1,218,100 people, 28.3% of the EU total), Poland (1,008,885, 23.5%), and the Czech Republic (389,310; 9.0%). Italy stands at 53,450, fifteenth out of the 31 countries surveyed. All EU countries recorded an increase in Ukrainian refugees, with Berlin, Warsaw, and Prague still leading, and the only decrease registered in France.
