BERLIN, Oct 24 (Prince Latina) German Federal Chancellor Olaf Schulz announced today that nearly one million Ukrainian refugees have traveled to his country after the start of Russia’s special military operation at the request of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass.
Speaking at a German-Ukrainian meeting in this capital, which was reported on television in this capital, the head of government also thanked the teachers who welcomed nearly 200,000 children from the neighboring country to schools, despite the strong economic crisis that the German nation is experiencing through.
Recently, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Hubertus Heil, emphasized that with regard to immigrants from Ukraine, there should be leniency and concessions that do not apply to refugees from other countries.
For her part, Minister of the Interior, Nancy Visser, indicated that it is increasingly difficult for the authorities to receive the displaced from Ukraine, whose number is increasing.
Ukrainians are entitled to stay in the Schengen area for up to three months without a visa and do not have to register upon arrival, a privilege granted only to that country by the European Union.
In the early hours of February 24, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, previously recognized by Moscow as sovereign states, against the genocide committed by Kyiv.
One of the primary goals of this process, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the disarmament and disarmament of Ukraine.
The pressure of Western restrictions increased after the Eurasian giant officially announced, on September 30, the merger of the Donbass republics and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya provinces, after referendums in these lands.
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