Latvian policy towards Ukrainian refugees in 2022 as the example of EU temporary protection

Latvian policy towards Ukrainian refugees and their social conditions in 2022 passed through the period of wide financial support in the end of the winter and spring as well as attempts to decrease financial aid in the summer and autumn. Being the part of EU policy of temporary protection, however, Latvian experience of support for Ukrainian citizens presented how such a little state could be one of those that provided the most aid to Ukraine having spent 1 % of the GDP in 2022. Offering almost the same rights for Ukrainian citizens staying in the country as for its residents, Latvia covered all the necessary costs of refugees’ living. Having compared the experience of Latvian policy towards refugees with other EU states, particularly with Poland, the article is the attempt to define all advantages and disadvantages of temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees. Due to the terms of Russo-Ukrainian war the policy became the attempt to integrate refugees into society and to decrease the state outcomes making refugees to be responsible for their social conditions