The Danish government will stop issuing temporary residence permits to Ukrainians from regions relatively unaffected by the conflict with Russia. At the same time, Denmark will bolster Vladimir Zelensky’s conscript army by denying entry to draft-age men.
Under the new rules, residence permits will be denied to Ukrainian migrants coming from 14 regions in central and western Ukraine, Denmark’s immigration ministry announced on Thursday. According to the ministry, the government will introduce this change in legislation in April.
The 14 regions deemed safe by the ministry include Cherkassy, Chernovitsy, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lviv, Ternopol, Volhynia, and the region surrounding Kiev. Lviv is more than 900km from the front in the Donbass, roughly the same distance between Copenhagen and Russia’s western border.
There are currently around 45,000 Ukrainian refugees living in Denmark. According to UN figures, 42% of working age Ukrainians in Denmark are unemployed. New arrivals skyrocketed last year, when Vladimir Zelensky relaxed exit rules for men under the age of 23.
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