French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said that the Council of the European Union had unanimously agreed on a 10-point plan to support Ukrainian refugees, DW reports.. The plan also applies to EU countries hosting the bulk of Ukrainian refugees.. Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denys Monastyrsky took part in an extraordinary meeting of the Ministers of Internal Affairs of the EU countries and the Schengen area via video link.

“This plan provides for the creation of an EU platform for the registration of all arrivals and applicants for temporary protection,” Johansson explained the first paragraph of the approved plan..

Today, this registration is carried out only within each state of the European Union, without the exchange of information between national systems..

The plan also refers to the development of measures to counter the exploitation of Ukrainian refugees by criminal groups.. A separate item concerns the admission of children, including those who arrived in the EU without adults. Also, the Council of the European Union decided to activate a special platform for combating crime in order to avoid security threats..

According to the European Commissioner, the number of refugees from Ukraine arriving in the EU is decreasing. If on peak days more than 200 thousand people arrived to escape from a full-scale war unleashed by the Russian Federation, now this figure has decreased to 40 thousand. In total, 3.8 million Ukrainian refugees arrived in the EU, of which half are children, Johansson said..

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Earlier it was reported that about 12 million Ukrainians became internally displaced persons.. More than 3 million citizens were forced to go abroad.

At the same time, Poland announced that the country would accept Ukrainian refugees for as long as necessary..