After the war ends, the outflow of the population to the West will continue.
Poland will enhance control at the border with Ukraine: an electronic barrier will be built there, reports the Ukrainian station RMF FM.
The project includes a round-the-clock surveillance system: daytime and thermal imaging cameras along the border.
Underground cables will be laid for seismic wave detection, data transmission, and power supply.
All information will be sent to a monitoring center, where border guards will analyze it.
The barrier is intended to complicate illegal border crossings and strengthen control.
In recent days, there has been an increase in traffic at the border between Poland and Ukraine. Ukrainian citizens are actively returning home in anticipation of the upcoming holidays, leading to queues at popular checkpoints.
"Yesterday, 107,000 citizens crossed the border, with the majority entering Ukraine. Again, only certain directions had a predominant load. These are the checkpoints 'Shehyni', 'Krakowiec', 'Rava-Ruska', where queues are still present as of this morning. Other checkpoints at the border with Poland have much less load and significantly shorter queues," said Andriy Demchenko, a representative of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
After the war ends and borders open, Ukraine may face a situation where 1-1.5 million people leave the country permanently. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Office of Migration Policy, Vasyl Voskoboynik, in an interview with the YouTube channel "Superposition."
He notes that this could lead to a new wave of labor migration, where people will go to work to support their families or to reunite with families that have already settled abroad.
"Labor migration is a blessing compared to the situation where people after the war may gather and leave to join their families abroad, who have already settled there, and family reunification will occur abroad. This is a more dreadful scenario for us than just labor migration," Voskoboynik said.
He urged Ukrainian authorities to prepare for such developments now. In particular, to ensure conditions for the legal employment of Ukrainians abroad, their social protection, and to stimulate their return home.
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