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).^[1] In January 2017 there were 3,302 foreigners with refugee status in Ukraine.^[2] Most refugees came from Afghanistan, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Somalia.^[2]

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.^[3]

Countries of origin

Rank	Country of Birth	Population (2001)[4]	% 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

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