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UkrInform: About 30,000 displaced people from Donbas want to move to the EU

Published Aug. 8, 2017 at 8:43 pm

Ukrainians with cars cross the Shegyni-Medyka checkpoint on the border with Poland, some 100 km from Lviv, Ukraine.

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Five European countries have received 29,895 applications for a permanent residence permit from displaced people from Donbas since the war in the east of Ukraine started.

According to the UN Refugee Agency, 9,616 people wanted to move to Germany, 9,319 – to Italy, 4,278 – to Poland, 3,459 – to France, and 3,148 – to Sweden.