Men from Ukraine will not be deprived of refugee status in Germany

Men from Ukraine will not be deprived of refugee status in Germany

Ukrainian men will not be deprived of refugee status in Germany, the German Ministry of Internal Affairs assured . The refusal to provide consular services will not affect the status of Ukrainian men who are in Germany as refugees.

The German Ministry of the Interior assured that the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to temporarily suspend the provision of consular services for male citizens aged 18 to 60 years abroad will not affect the status of refugees in Germany.

“I am confident that this will not affect the status of refugees from Ukraine in need of protection, regardless of whether we are talking about women, who constitute the vast majority of such refugees, or men,” the official representative emphasized on Wednesday, April 24 German Interior Ministry Maximilian Kall, answering questions from a DW correspondent.

The decisions of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in Berlin are not commented on

Ukrainian refugees have such temporary protection in all countries of the European Union due to the fact that they were forced to leave their homeland to escape Russian aggression, Kall added at a government press conference in Berlin.

At the same time, neither he nor the press secretary of the German Foreign Ministry wanted to comment on Kyiv’s decision to stop consular services for Ukrainian men of military age, including in Germany. “This is a sovereign decision of Ukraine, which I cannot comment on on behalf of the German Foreign Ministry,” said Christian Wagner, a representative of this department.