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Total population | |
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884 007 (2021) | |
Languages | |
Russian (99.8%, 2002), Ukrainian | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Christians (55%)[1][2] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Kuban Cossacks, other Slavic peoples (especially East Slavs) |
The Russian census identified that there were more than 5,864,000 Ukrainians living in Russia in 2015, representing over 4.01% of the total population of the Russian Federation and comprising the eighth-largest ethnic group. On 2022 February there were roughly 2.8 million Ukrainians who fled to Russia .
In February 2014, there were 2.6 million Ukrainian citizens in the territory of Russia, two-thirds of the labour migrants; however, after Russia annexed Crimea and the start of the war in Donbas, the number was estimated to have risen to 4.5 million.