The Hungarian government has restricted state support measures for Ukrainian refugees, retaining social assistance measures only for displaced people from 13 regions directly affected by the fighting, the BBC reported.
According to the new law, refugees from those regions of Ukraine directly affected by the armed conflict will receive state support in Hungary. At the moment 13 regions are recognised as such, but the list will be updated by the Hungarian Cabinet of Ministers on a monthly basis, according to the material.
BBC pointed out that will retain the right to state support refugees with registration in Ukraine in one of these regions. Other resettlers will lose the right to receive free housing and monthly social allowance, the publication emphasised.
According to Hungary, more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed the country’s border over the past 1.5 years, most of them travelled to other EU states. Asylum in the country received 31 thousand people.
Earlier, the European Pravda website quoted Norwegian TV channel NRK as saying that one in three Ukrainian refugees in Norway had already decided that they would not return home.