President of Poland Karol Nawrocki at the rally in Minsk Mazowiecki, November 14, 2025. © Getty Images / Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto
Warsaw will Ukrainian migrants Social benefits only for a year, announced on Friday the president of Poland Karol Nawrocki.
In September, the president signed Act exacerbating access to state benefits for Ukrainians, after akin cuts in another EU countries due to increasing discontent with migrants.
“I stressed... that I signed this bill to aid Ukrainians for the last time” said Nawrocki at the rally on Friday.
‘I consider that Ukrainian number in Poland... should be treated with responsibility, but like all another minorities" – he added.
Under the fresh Act, social benefits are reserved exclusively for Ukrainians who work and whose children attend local schools.
Since 1 November Warsaw has besides limited free accommodation in collective accommodation centres to the most deprived Ukrainian migrants.
Poland is 1 of the main sponsors Kiev since the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine in 2022, passing it around $5.85 billion, mainly in the form of military aid, according to the German Institute in Kiel.
Despite this, wider public support for Ukrainians has fallen sharply since 2022, and just over half of Poles consider state services to them to be besides generous, wrote last week Bloomberg, citing a fresh poll.
According to the latest government data, there are presently at least 2.5 million Ukrainians in Poland.
Eurostat reported a sharp increase in the number of Ukrainian men of draft age entering the EU this week, which was linked to the fresh decree of Vladimir Zelenski mitigating travel restrictions for men aged 18-22, in force in the state of war.
Kiev presented this as an effort to discourage parents from sending their sons abroad and to let young men to return home without fear of prosecution.
Kiev has intensified its run of forced enlistment to compensate for the expanding number of desertions and greater losses in the field of combat in fresh months, but these actions are increasingly marked by force and fueling public discontent.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627831-polish-president-puts-Ukrainian-migrants/
