{"id":1402017,"date":"2026-06-05T23:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainians-of-draft-age-should-fight-not-leave-swedish-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:27:18","slug":"ukrainians-of-draft-age-should-fight-not-leave-swedish-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainians-of-draft-age-should-fight-not-leave-swedish-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainians of draft age should fight, not leave \u2014 Swedish minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell said that the European Union should consider limiting temporary protection for Ukrainian men of military age who travel abroad during a full-scale war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/05\/ukraine-war-briefing-ukrainian-men-should-be-turned-back-from-eu-to-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> According to a Swedish government official, Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine is ongoing, so more men should remain in the country and participate in its defense.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is important for us to provide protection to Ukrainians, but at the same time this war must be fought and won,&#8221; Forssell said during a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, he clarified that possible changes should only apply to new applicants and should not affect Ukrainians who are already under the temporary protection mechanism in EU countries.<\/p>\n<p> The minister also proposed considering restrictions on issuing visas to Russian citizens for tourist trips to European Union countries.<\/p>\n<p> According to Eurostat, more than 4.3 million Ukrainians who left due to the full-scale Russian invasion currently have temporary protection in EU countries. Most of them are in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zapyt-na-perehliad-statusu-cholovikiv-pryzovnoho-viku-nadiyshov-vid-ukrainy-ievrokomisar\/\">the European Union is discussing the possibility of changing the conditions of the temporary protection program for Ukrainian citizens, in particular for men of military age.<\/a> The initiative, according to the European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, came from the Ukrainian side.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/avstriia-proponuie-skasuvaty-tymchasovyy-zakhyst-dlia-ukrainskykh-cholovikiv-pryzovnoho-viku\/\">Austria insists on ending the automatic granting of asylum to Ukrainians<\/a> aged 23 to 60.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/polshcha-vystupyla-za-perehliad-pravyl-tymchasovoho-zakhystu-ukraintsiv-zmi\/\">Poland supports the idea of limiting access to temporary protection in European Union countries<\/a> for Ukrainian men of draft age.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell said that the European Union should consider limiting temporary protection for Ukrainian men of military age who travel abroad during a full-scale war. This is reported by The Guardian. According to a Swedish government official, Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine is ongoing, so more men should remain in the country and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1401546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1402017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1401546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}