Ukraine war: Russia ramps up defence spending, Wagner founder training volunteers, power station hit
All the latest development from the war in Ukraine.
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00:00 Relief for more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees currently living in the EU.
00:07 The European Council on Thursday agreed to extend the temporary protection status for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
00:15 This grants them the certainty that they will be allowed to stay in the bloc until March 2025,
00:21 without the need to examine individual applications.
00:25 The European Commissioner for Home Affairs says approximately 250,000 people per week cross the borders between Ukraine and the EU in both directions.
00:35 It's been the fastest growing refugee crisis faced by Europe since World War II,
00:40 and the EU has repeated that it will continue to support the people of Ukraine as long as it takes.
00:48 The year-long extension will give Ukrainians living in the European Union more certainty as the war in their country drags on.
00:55 Triggered days after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,
01:00 the temporary protection status gives them the right to residency and housing in European Union countries.
01:07 It also means they're allowed to work, their children can attend school, and they can access medical and social welfare assistance.
01:16 Temporary protection is an EU emergency mechanism,
01:19 which is activated in exceptional circumstances of mass influx and was first adopted in 2001.
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