Citizens who fled Ukraine and live in the EU under the EU “temporary protection” procedure amount to 4.38 million. Such figure, last updated on January 31st 2026 and published today by the European Statistics Bureau Eurostat, marks +0.5% on the previous month. EU countries hosting the highest number of temporary protection recipients from Ukraine are Germany (1,260,230 people; 28.8% of EU total), Poland (965,990; 22.1%) and the Czech Republic (397,185; 9.1%). It turned out there were 62,525 Ukrainian men and women in Italy as of January 31st 2026. Such number has increased in 23 countries, mostly in Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain. It has decreased, instead, in 4 countries, mainly in Poland and Cyprus. Taking the number of Ukrainian citizens per one thousand inhabitants, the highest proportions are those of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Temporary protection status has been applied for and granted to 98.4% of Ukrainian citizens. 43.5% of them are women, 30.3% children, and 26.1% men. On June 13th 2025, the European Council passed a resolution to extend temporary protection to those people from March 4th 2026 to March 4th 2027.