Teaching for Ukrainian children, September 9, 2022 in Mladá Boleslav, which the city provided in part in the building of the former Hermes private secondary school.
Bratislava – The Czech Republic received the most refugees per capita from war-torn Ukraine of all Central and Eastern European countries, the Slovak non-governmental organization Globsec said in a presentation it published today at a press conference. In terms of the amount of aid provided to Ukraine, including the estimated costs of Ukrainian refugees, after taking into account the performance of the economy, the Czech Republic finished in fourth place in the region.
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According to Globsec representative Martin Poliačik, unlike other situations in the past, Central and Eastern Europe has become a leader in providing aid to Ukraine and is coming up with initiatives to which Western European countries then respond. As one of the examples, Poliačik cited last year's mission of the S-300 air defense missile system from Slovakia to Ukraine.
The share of Ukrainian refugees in the total number of inhabitants in the Czech Republic reached roughly 4.5 percent. In Poland it was about four percent; however, Globsec analyst Juraj Kuruc pointed out that the figure for Poland would actually be higher if all refugees from Ukraine had applied for refugee status there.
After the Russian invasion of the neighboring country at the end of last February, refugees from Ukraine available data for around eight million people. Most of them remained in Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.
According to Globsec for Central and Eastern Europe, the number of Ukrainian refugees was unprecedented, and countries proceeded in this matter differently than during the migration crisis in the EU from 2015, when, for example, the Czech Republic or Slovakia rejected quotas for the redistribution of refugees between individual countries.
Estonia, Poland, Latvia and the Czech Republic spent the largest amount of aid to Ukraine, including the estimated costs of Ukrainian refugees, from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe with regard to the performance of their economies.
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