Foreign Ministry announces the number of Ukrainians in Belarus: unofficial figures are more than 30 times higher than consular ones
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko (Illustrative photo: EPA)

According to unofficial information, there are more than two hundred thousand Ukrainian citizens in Belarus, but about 7,000 people are registered with the consulate. This, in response to a request from LIGA.net, was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The agency said that currently, according to unofficial data, there are about 215,000 Ukrainian citizens in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

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At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that there are 6925 Ukrainian passport holders registered with the consulate in the country (a difference of more than 30 times with unofficial figures – Ed.).

The agency also pointed out that, according to the State Border Committee of Belarus, 65,429 Ukrainian citizens entered the country from January 1 to August 1, 2025 (for the whole of last year, this number was 134,561).

In 2025, we are talking about the following ways to enter the Republic of Belarus:

→ 52,543 Ukrainian citizens entered in transit through Poland;

→ via Lithuania 12 004;

→ via Latvia – 847;

→ directly from the territory of Ukraine – 35.

Also, from the beginning of the year to September 15, $110,000 was transferred to the Ukrainian budget for the embassy's consular activities in Belarus, the Foreign Ministry noted.

  • Belarus is an ally of Russia, which provided it with a springboard for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
  • In August 2024, the Foreign Intelligence Service urged citizens to refrain from traveling to Belarus: the risks in this country are "smaller in scale" compared to those in Russia, but staying there is still dangerous may threaten the safety and lives of Ukrainians.
  • In October 2025, Belarus once again announced that it had brought its troops to full combat readiness, but the SBGS noted that Minsk had not conducted any activities near the Ukrainian border and did not move troops to it.
  • At the end of the same month, the HUR reported LIGA.net that Moscow and Minsk have an agreement on the deployment of Oreshnik missile systems in Belarus – tentatively, this will happen by the end of 2025.
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