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Immigration into Ukraine post independence has been mainly ethnic Ukrainians already living in nearby countries (for example in 1993 they were 90% of all immigrants); other immigrants were mostly Crimean Tatars and people fleeing wars in Azerbaijan, Transnistria and Ichkeria (now part of Russia as the Chechen Republic). In January 2017 there were 3,302 foreigners with refugee status in Ukraine. Most refugees came from Afghanistan, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Somalia.

After the start of the war in Donbas in 2014 several hundred foreigners (mostly Russians and Belarusians) migrated to Ukraine to join its territorial defence battalions and army.

Countries of origin

Rank	Country of Birth	Population (2001)	% of Ukraine's population
	Total	5,156,240	10.7
1	Russia	3,613,240	7.5
2	Belarus	270,751	0.6
3	Kazakhstan	245,072	0.5
4	Uzbekistan	242,390	0.5
5	Moldova	165,126	0.3
6	Poland	145,106	0.3
7	Azerbaijan	90,753	0.2
8	Georgia	71,015	0.1
9	Germany	64,015	0.1
10	Armenia	52,168	0.1
11	Tajikistan	32,386	0.1
12	Kyrgyzstan	29,476	0.1
13	Turkmenistan	24,926	0.1
14	Latvia	19,095	0.0
15	Lithuania	16,012	0.0
16	Hungary	11,235	0.0
17	Estonia	10,964	0.0
18	Czech Republic	7,473	0.0
19	China	5,015	0.0
20	Mongolia	4,413	0.0
21	Romania	3,876	0.0
22	Vietnam	3,399	0.0
23	Slovakia	2,148	0.0
24	Bulgaria	2,062	0.0
25	Austria	1,726	0.0
26	France	1,433	0.0
27	Syria	1,352	0.0
28	India	1,232	0.0
29	Afghanistan	1,111	0.0
30	United States	1,040	0.0

References

1. Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (New Anthropologies of Europe) by Sarah D. Phillips, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-21992-3, page 40
2. ^ "Among the refugees in Ukraine are many Russians and Syrians - UNHCR". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
3. They Came to Fight for Ukraine. Now They’re Stuck in No Man’s Land., Foreign Policy (19 October 2015)
   Foreigners in ATO: Three years without citizenship, UNIAN (17 August 2016)
   The Foreign Fighters Battling for Ukraine, Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (14 November 2016)
4. Статистичний збірник «Населення України за місцем народження та громадянством за даними Всеукраїнського перепису населення 2001 року» (zip)

External links

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• Immigration to Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

• Immigration to Ukraine
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