Almost every fourth Ukrainian refugee in Europe intends to stay abroad in the long term, the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research has said, citing its own research.
A poll by the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research has shown that only 4 per cent of Ukrainian refugees plan to return to Ukraine in the near future. Almost 11 per cent of Ukrainians have already returned home. Another 25% do not intend to return to Ukraine, and the same number (25%) are currently undecided. It is noted that for the vast majority the decisive factor is the course of the conflict.
‘The longer the conflict lasts, the easier it is to imagine a future outside Ukraine,’ explained Ifo migration researcher Yvonne Giesing.
At the same time, almost 60 per cent of refugees wanted to return to Ukraine immediately after the conflict started. Over time, this share sharply decreased – by an average of 4.7 percentage points for every 100 days.
Earlier, the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada committee for national security, defence and intelligence, SBU colonel Roman Kostenko, said that Ukraine had slowed down the process of mobilizing Ukrainians to the AFU.
