{"id":10927,"date":"2026-06-29T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/10927\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:11:14","slug":"eu-plans-to-bar-military-age-ukrainians-from-new-temporary-protection-from-2027-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/10927\/","title":{"rendered":"EU plans to bar military\u2011age Ukrainians from new temporary protection from 2027 \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission last week proposed slapping a ban on arriving Ukrainians with military obligations, which could come into force in March 2027 following its adoption.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means that \u2018temporary protection\u2019 [the EU blanket welcome for Ukrainian refugees] will not be granted as a rule, to newly-arriving persons who are not authorised by the Ukrainian authorities to leave Ukraine in view of their military obligations,\u201d a European Commission spokesperson explained to reporters in Brussels on Monday (29 June).<\/p>\n

Magnus Brunner, the EU\u2019s home affairs commissioner, said the curtailment takes into account Ukraine\u2019s evolving defence needs as Russia continues to pound the country with drones, missiles and ground forces.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has also been attempting to recruit new people into its fighting forces, following years of fighting that have seen Russia seize approximately 20 percent of its territory.<\/p>\n

The latest measure would likely affect men of fighting age, ranging anywhere from the mid-20s to 60. <\/p>\n

The EU has been providing Ukrainians with a blanket temporary protection status since 2022, which has been extended annually.<\/p>\n

The latest proposed one-year extension, including the suspension of protection for men of military age, if adopted, would apply from 5 March 2027 to 4 March 2028.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine does not release detailed casualty figures, but the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/a> says the country likely has up to 600,000 casualties – comprising killed, wounded, and missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission last week proposed slapping a ban on arriving Ukrainians with military obligations, which could come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,22,19,5150,17,5148,20,18,5149,21],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-typedefinedterm","tag-identifier24","tag-identifier4308","tag-identifier4403","tag-namerussia","tag-namesociety","tag-nameukraine","tag-termcoderussia","tag-termcodesociety","tag-termcodeukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}