Ukrainians

A total of 36.1 thousand Ukrainians were employed under contracts in Lithuania in the beginning of February, the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation said on Monday.

A few dozen Ukrainians celebrated Unity Day of Ukraine on the King Mindaugas Bridge in Vilnius on Wednesday, a month before the third anniversary of Russia’s war against their homeland.

According to the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM), 70% of Ukrainians residing in Lithuania are active in the labour market: are employed under contract, under personal contract or are hired as temporary workers.

Ukrainians employed in Lithuania have paid a total of EUR 65.2 million in taxes to the state budget in the first seven months of this year, a 25% increase from the same period in 2023, the Ministry of Social Security and Labour said Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Government on Wednesday decided to extend the temporary protection status for Ukrainian war refugees for one more year.

The Government has extended the deadline for Ukrainian refugees working in Lithuania to learn the state language.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday presented First Lady Diana Nausėdienė with the 1st grade Order of Princess Olga, a state decoration of Ukraine, at the Ukrainian Center, the presidency reports.

The state has funded studies of more than 1,000 Ukrainians who arrived in Lithuania after fleeing the war in their country, says the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. The state support for Ukrainian students in Lithuania’s state higher education institutions totalled EUR 4.6 million.

Ukrainian war refugees have been applying to the Migration Department in large numbers to renew their temporary residence permits since last week, when the process started. The interest is exceeding all the expectations, the authority says.

Lithuanian instructors have trained 2,900 Ukrainian soldiers this year, the military said. Trainings are planned for another 3,500 Ukrainians next year.

Vilnius is hosting Ukraine Green Recovery Conference on 28 November-1 December. On Tuesday, Virginijus Sinkevičius, European commissioner for environment, oceans and fisheries, and Ruslan Strilets, Ukraine’s minister of environmental protection and natural resources, spoke at the conference. The com...

Since the beginning of the full-scale war which is being conducted by Russia, dozens of Ukrainian people have been forced to flee their homes, to save their lives. It is not an easy task for them to adapt in other European countries as they face difficulties such as foreign languages, inability to g...

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Julia Mickiewicz – a Belarusian activist, co-founder of the Feminist group within the Coordination Council in Belarus – had to leave her country 2 years ago. Together with the organisation for non-formal organisation for which she works, Julia relocated to Lithuania. Julia tells about life in immigr...

Lithuania’s First Lady Diana Nausėdienė arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, where on the invitation of First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska she is attending the Third Summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen.

Lithuania’s First Lady Diana Nausėdienė on Thursday attended the family festival held on Ukraine’s Independence Day at the Ukraine Centre in Vilnius, which had been opened on the initiative of Lithuanian and Ukrainian first ladies.

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, on behalf of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and on her own behalf, has congratulated Ukraine and its people on the occasion of Independence Day, the Office of the Seimas said in a press release.

The number of Russian and Belarusian citizens seeking international protection in Estonia has soared since the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine last February, according to the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA). The number of Ukrainians who have applied for asylum ...

The National Electronic Mass Media Council of Latvia (NEPLP) has blocked three Russian websites (wagner2022.ru, dentv.ru and yapolitic.ru) for spreading propaganda, reports news website delfi.lv.