Prague, Czech Republic, March 2022
Ukrainians are the largest foreign community in the Czech Republic, with almost 197,000 legally resident at the end of 2021. The Czech people have rallied around them and immediately mobilised to help the people at war and those fleeing the country.
More than one hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the Czech Republic since the beginning of the conflict. The Minister of Interior, Vít Rakušan, stated a few days ago that about 57,000 people have already received special visas, more than half of which are children. About a quarter of the refugees are in the capital Prague.