Passenger traffic across the Ukrainian border during the week of June 7-13, with the onset of summer, the end of the school year, and the start of the vacation season, increased by another 3% to 590,000, according to data from the State Border Service on Facebook.
According to the data, the outbound flow increased from 311,000 to 324,000, while the inbound flow increased from 262,000 to 266,000.
The number of vehicles that passed through checkpoints this week increased from 125,000 to 127,000, while the flow of vehicles carrying humanitarian cargo remained at 514.
During the week, the State Border Service reported an increase in passenger traffic across the Ukrainian border and the resulting queues.
“The heaviest traffic is observed at the end of the week and on weekends,” the agency said.
According to the State Border Service, at noon on Sunday, the longest queue of passenger cars at the Polish border was at the Ustyluh checkpoint, with 80 vehicles, while 15 cars were waiting to cross the border at Uzhgorod and Shehyni, and 10 at Krakivets.
At the border with Hungary, there were queues of 20-25 cars at all crossing points – Vylok, Luzhanka, Tisa, Dzvinove, and Kosino.
At the border with Slovakia, 40 cars were waiting to pass inspection at the Uzhgorod checkpoint, and 15 at Maly Berezny.
At the border with Romania, there was a queue of 50 cars at the main crossing point “Porubne.”
The total number of people crossing the border this year is higher than last year: during the same seven days last year, 306,000 people left Ukraine and 268,000 entered, and the flow of cars was also lower – 119,000.
Last year, a significant summer increase in passenger traffic began in the first week of June and lasted for five weeks in a row.
As reported, from May 10, 2022, the outflow of refugees from Ukraine, which began with the start of the war, was replaced by an influx that lasted until September 23, 2022, and amounted to 409,000 people. However, since the end of September, possibly influenced by news of mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, followed by massive shelling of energy infrastructure, the number of people leaving exceeded the number of people entering. In total, from the end of September 2022 to the first anniversary of the full-scale war, it reached 223,000 people.
During the second year of the full-scale war, the number of border crossings to leave Ukraine, according to the State Border Service, exceeded the number of crossings to enter by 25,000, during the third year by 187,000, and since the beginning of the fourth year by 137,000.
As Deputy Minister of Economy Serhiy Sobolev noted in early March 2023, the return of every 100,000 Ukrainians home results in a 0.5% increase in GDP.
In its April inflation report, the National Bank again estimated the outflow from Ukraine in 2024 at 0.5 million (according to the State Border Service – 0.315 million). In absolute terms, this means an increase in the number of migrants remaining abroad to 6.8 million in 2024. The NBU also maintained its forecast for the outflow in 2025 at 0.2 million.
According to updated UNHCR data, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe as of May 31, 2025, was estimated at 5.059 million (as of April 17 – 6.358 million), and worldwide – at 5.620 million (6.918 million).
In Ukraine itself, according to the latest UN data at the end of last year, there were 3.669 million internally displaced persons (IDPs).
