European Migrant Crisis as Conditioned by the Full-Scale Russian-Ukrainian War

The aim of the paper is to analyse the current European migrant crisis, as the massive movement of Ukrainian refugees to the EU countries, beginning after the full-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The methodology of the research is based on general scientific and special historical methods, sociological and demographic tools, the theory of human capital, the concept of «push and pull factors», the foundations of the neoclassical economic macro-level theory of migration. The topicality of the research is conditioned by the fact that it is the first attempt to examine the European migrant crisis. The cause of this is the movement of millions of Ukrainian refugees to the European Union because of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that the largest European migrant crisis since the Second World War has been caused by the Russian full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. It has led to the displacement of millions of Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children particularly to the EU. The Temporary Protection Directive for refugees from Ukraine has been activated for the first time, and all EU countries have supported it unanimously. Due to the relative front line stability, most Ukrainians have returned to their motherland. Today, there are about 6.5 million Ukrainian refugees in the world, and more than 6 million of them are in the EU. The solution to the European migrant crisis caused by the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war is only possible if Ukraine wins.