Brussels: Europe and the Arab World

In September 2025, EU member states issued 79,205 new decisions granting temporary protection to non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression. This represents a 49.0% increase compared to August 2025 and is the highest monthly number of new decisions recorded since August 2023. This increase follows the Ukrainian government's adoption at the end of August 2025 of a decree granting men aged 18 to 22, inclusive, the right to leave Ukraine without hindrance. According to Eurostat, the European statistical office in Brussels, at the end of September 2025, the total number of non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine and were granted temporary protection status in the EU reached 4.3 million. Compared to the end of August 2025, the total number of people from Ukraine with temporary protection increased by 49,555 (+1.2%).

The EU countries hosting the largest number of people granted temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1,218,100 people; 28.3% of the total), Poland (1,008,885 people; 23.5%), and the Czech Republic (389,310 people; 9.0%).

Among the EU countries for which data are available, the number of people granted temporary protection increased in 24 countries, with the three largest absolute increases recorded in Poland (+12,960 people; +1.3%), Germany (+7,585 people; +0.6%), and the Czech Republic (+3,455 people; +0.9%). The only decrease was recorded in France (-240 people; -0.4%).

The highest rates of beneficiaries of temporary protection per thousand people were recorded in the Czech Republic (35.7), Poland (27.6), and Estonia (25.5), while the EU-wide rate was 9.6 per thousand people.

As of 30 September 2025, Ukrainian nationals accounted for more than 98.4% of beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women comprised 44.0% of beneficiaries. Minors made up almost a third (31.0%), while adult men accounted for almost a quarter (25.1%) of the total.

The data indicates that temporary protection status was granted pursuant to Executive Council Decision 2022/382 of 4 March 2022, which recognized the mass influx of internally displaced persons from Ukraine due to the Russian war of aggression and applied temporary protection. On 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted a decision to extend the temporary protection of these persons from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.