Almost 4.2 million Ukrainian granted temporary protection in EU

As of August 31, nearly 4.2 million people who fled Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion had the status of temporary protection in the EU.

Such data was released on October 10 by Eurostat, Ukrinform reports.

It is noted that Germany (1.2 million people, 27% of the total), Poland (975,190) and the Czech Republic (376,885) received the largest number of recipients of temporary protection status from Ukraine.

As of August 31, more than 98.3% of temporary protection recipients in the EU were Ukrainian citizens. Among them, adult women accounted for 45.1%, children for 32.3%, and adult men for 22.6% of the total.

As reported by Ukrinform, as of July 31, just over 4.1 million people who fled Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion had temporary protection status in the EU.

At the end of June, this number was 4.3 million.