Net outflow from Ukraine in the week from April 22 to 28 was 22 thousand people compared to 34 thousand a week earlier.
According to the State Border Service on Facebook, the flow to leave Ukraine in that week increased from 254,000 to 277,000 people, while the flow to enter – from 220,000 to 255,000 people.
After the end of the Orthodox Easter, in the three weeks before which almost every day there was a net inflow into Ukraine, the last two weeks the number of people leaving the country exceeded the number of those entering.
The number of vehicles crossing the western border of Ukraine, according to the department, in the 17th week of the year increased from 110 thousand to 130 thousand, and the number of vehicles with humanitarian loads from 418 to 466, which is probably due to the resumption of transit of agricultural goods.
The Polish State Border Service for the last seven days also registered decrease of the net outflow from Ukraine – down to 11.1 thousand people from 29.6 thousand people a week before.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland increased from 177.4 thousand people to 184.5 thousand, whereas the return flow from Poland to Ukraine – from 147.8 thousand people to 173.4 thousand.
All in all, since the beginning of the war, by April 28, 2023, 11.469 million people had arrived from Ukraine to Poland, whereas 9.696 million people went in the opposite direction.
As it was reported, since May 10, 2022, the outflow of refugees from Ukraine was replaced by an inflow, which lasted until September 23 and amounted to 409 thousand people.
However, from late September, probably under the influence of news about mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then massive shelling of the energy infrastructure, a net outflow was recorded. It temporarily stopped in the second half of December – early January for the period of holidays, but from the second week of January it resumed again, and cumulatively since late September, by the anniversary of the full-scale war reached 223 thousand people.
From that moment and up to the present time, 121 thousand more people entered Ukraine than left.
As Deputy Economy Minister Sergei Sobolev noted in early March, the return of every 100,000 Ukrainians home gives a 0.5% increase in GDP.
According to UNHCR data as of April 25, the number of Ukrainians registered in Europe with temporary protection status or similar reached 5.048 million, increasing by almost 4 thousand over the week.
