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Recently the European Union decided to extend temporary protection for Ukrainians until 4 March 2028 of the year. However, they did this with one condition – men of conscription age will no longer be eligible to receive it.
At the beginning of 2026 year, Spain also enacted a provision denying asylum to male Ukrainians who are obliged to serve in the military—which applies to men aged from 23 to 60. And many media outlets are already spreading rumors about some "massive" and even "total police checks" in Spanish cities and deportations, writes DW.
Will Ukrainians be deported from Spain?
Fuel is also being added to the fire by some bloggers—reading their posts on social networks can give uninformed readers the impression that Spaniards will soon start mass deportations of Ukrainian men. In reality, this is not the case.
As of the end of June 2026, Spain had 353 009 Ukrainians with an official residence and work permit. Of them, 74% use temporary protection, and the rest are migrants with the corresponding residence permit.
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By the way, Spain ranks fourth in Europe—immediately after Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic—for the number of Ukrainian refugees received. Among them, 58% are women, and another 30% are minors. Most Ukrainians work in Spain in the service and construction sectors, and also in their respective trades.
In the Spanish police, they assured that law enforcement agencies are not engaged in checking Ukrainian citizens.
The task of identifying, arresting, and expelling conscript Ukrainians was never assigned to the police,
—they stressed.
Ukrainians do not have their documents checked even when crossing borders—refugees travel to Spain via France by bus and car, and those two countries do not have border control. So the documents of Ukrainians are seen for the first time by authorities when they process refugee status—and nobody is "forced" to obtain this status.
Ukrainians who have been living for a long time in Alicante and Madrid—two of the largest cities in Spain—also report that they have heard nothing about any checks.
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