Ucrania trabaja para reintegrar a 10 millones de refugiados y migrantes que escaparon de la guerra con Rusia.

El inicio de la invasión rusa en febrero de 2022 obligó a millones de ciudadanos ucranianos a huir del país. Entre seis y diez millones aún residen en el extranjero, y el gobierno desea que regresen. Son necesarios: el país ya enfrentaba un profundo déficit demográfico que la guerra ha agravado aún más. Con la vista puesta en la reconstrucción, un nuevo departamento, denominado Ministerio de Unidad Nacional, se enfrenta a la ardua tarea de reintegrar a sus ciudadanos.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has made the ministry’s tasks of working with the large Ukrainian community abroad one of the priorities of the resilience plan he presented to parliament on November 19. The new portfolio, a reshuffle of the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, was officially created on December 3.

Olga Pyschulina, a sociologist at the Razumkov think tank, sums up what has emerged about the government’s plans: “There are many people living abroad and the new ministry will try to encourage them to return. How? Nobody knows; there are no mechanisms for such returns yet,” she says in a café near her office. The Ukrainian press has posed the same question to various government departments and the head of state, without success.