Germany to allocate an additional €2.4 billion by the end of 2022 to cover financial costs for the maintenance of Ukrainian refugees who arrived in the country. This was announced by Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil in an interview with the RND media group..

“It is difficult to calculate the amount necessary for the maintenance of refugees, because we do not know how many refugees will still arrive and how long the war will continue,” the minister added..

According to Heil, about 800,000 Ukrainians have asked for asylum in Germany, 30% of them are children under 14.. About 360,000 refugees have registered with the German social security system, 260,000 of them are looking for work.

The minister added that the German government will make efforts to employ Ukrainian refugees.

More than 9 million people have left Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, according to the UN..

According to a survey conducted by the UN Refugee Agency in six European countries, the majority of Ukrainians who received asylum there would like to return to their homeland after the end of the war.. A third of them plan to return soon, but two-thirds are not ready to do so until peace is established in Ukraine.