Ukrainian refugees of the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war in NATO countries: the geopolitical context of the military migration crisis

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Russian-Ukrainian war is being waged on the territory of Ukraine, but it is of global importance. One of the aspects of the war is the mass migration of Ukrainians abroad. The causes and features of migration are explained in the global geopolitical context. In recent years, war refugees have become increasingly important in world migration flows. This testifies to the crisis of the world order that arose in the early 1990s. The uniqueness of the flow of refugees from Ukraine is its extraordinary size, speed of movement, gender and age imbalance, the predominance of urban residents with a high level of education. In the future, this prepares for Ukraine a demographic catastrophe and difficulties in the post-war reconstruction of the country. The author concludes that a solution to the Ukrainian military migration crisis can be found in the context of changes in the post-war world order.