Nikolai Adashkevich. One hundred ninety-one Ukrainian citizen has applied for asylum in Finland during the first eight months of this year, announced on Thursday Estonian TV referring to the Finnish magazine

according to the publication, the number of Ukrainians who were petitioning for asylum in Finland has increased in recent months: in March there were only four statements, but in the last month of summer already 87. On applications Ukrainian Residents already made 53 decisions, and in practice they are all negative.

According to the Department of immigration Finland, most often as the reasons for the petition stated the situation in Eastern Ukraine, but only this reason enough to get a residence permit.

according to the information Department of the border guard of Estonia, in the period from January to end of August seekers asked 4 of the citizen of Ukraine, one of them refused, and 3 statements taken by themselves intercessors.


Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of the population of Donbass. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded. In the Russian capital a special operation, which has already resulted in numerous casualties on both sides, and among them civilians, called punitive and evangelizing the world community to take all possible measures to stop the fire.

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