There’s been a 49% rise in temporary protection granted to non-EU citizens escaped from Ukraine in September, compared with August. In fact, September’s 79,205 authorisations marked a peak in new decisions, the highest reported since August 2023, as explained today by Eurostat, the EU Statistics Bureau, as in late August 2025 the Ukrainian Government granted men aged 18 to 22 the right to leave Ukraine with no obstacles. By the end of September 2025, there were 4.3 million non-EU citizens escaped from Ukraine and welcomed into the EU through the temporary protection procedure: 44% of them are adult women, 31% are children, and 25.1% are men. The countries that host the highest number of people fleeing Ukraine 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%). In September, the highest number of people taken in from Ukraine had increased in 24 countries, first and foremost Poland (+12,960; +1.3%), Germany (+7,585; +0.6%) and the Czech Republic (+3,455; +0.9%). The number only decreased in France (-240; -0.4%). It turned out there were 53,450 people escaped from Russian aggression in Italy by late September, according to Eurostat.