Data on trends in visits to Ukraine by Russian citizens from 2022 to 2026 has been released
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The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has released data on trends in visits to Ukraine by citizens of the Russian Federation from 2022 to 2026—since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This is stated in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine’s response to a request from “Shelter.”
Specifically, 53,131 Russian citizens entered Ukraine in 2022,
- 13,687 in 2023,
- in 2024 – 16,330,
- in 2025 – 16,434,
- in the first half of 2026 – 15,088.
At the same time, for 2022 as a whole, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine recorded 2,339,971 instances of foreigners and stateless persons crossing the state border to enter Ukraine; in 2023—2,456,474; 2,554,496 in 2024, 2,568,486 in 2025, and 1,116,892 in the first half of 2026.
As a reminder, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine named the country with the highest number of citizens entering Ukraine in 2022–2026.
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Viacheslav Zhaivoronok editor
All materialsHe studied at the Faculty of Philology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He has been working in journalism since the early 2000s. He has worked for the publications "Ukrainski Novyny," OBOZ.UA, "RBC-Ukraine," and "Apostrof."