Newly arriving individuals who are not permitted to leave Ukraine because of military obligations under Ukrainian law will be excluded
The EU will extend temporary protection for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war until March 2028, while excluding newly arriving Ukrainian men of military age from the scheme.
“This is what Ukraine has asked us to do, and this is what we are doing,” Magnus Brunner, the EU migration commissioner said while presenting the extension on Friday.
Euractiv was first to report in early June that excluding Ukrainian men of military age from any future extension of the bloc’s temporary protection regime – which has sheltered more than four million people since Russia’s full-scale invasion – was under discussion.
Under the European Commission’s proposal, temporary protection would no longer be granted to newly arriving individuals who are not permitted to leave Ukraine because of military obligations under Ukrainian law.
