Louise Douillet, edited by Gauthier Delomez 9:54 p.m., August 04, 2022

Nearly five months after the start of the war in Ukraine, 100,000 Ukrainians have come to take refuge in France, like Anna, a French teacher met by Europe 1. According to the French Office for Immigration and integration, 10,000 of them would have found a job.

They are now 100,000 Ukrainians to have taken refuge in France, nearly six months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

While most of the men stayed to fight, eight out of ten refugees are women and children.

Europe 1 met Anna, 24, who is a French teacher.

She took refuge in Paris at the start of the conflict.

She continues to give lessons to Ukrainian children from a distance, and works in particular as a translator in France.

“I am happy and unhappy at the same time”

"I feel safe and I can take advantage from time to time", explains Anna at the microphone of Europe 1. "I can say that I am happy and unhappy at the same time. Sometimes I wonder how I can take a little cup of coffee in the morning", admits the French teacher, who keeps a very close eye on what is happening in her country.

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Anna says she receives 420 euros thanks to the ADA, the allowance for asylum seekers, and she benefits from the temporary protection system like all the 100,000 refugees spread throughout France.

More refugees in the Île-de-France and Paca regions

It is in the Île-de-France region where we find the largest number of Ukrainians who have fled the fighting, notes Didier Leschi, the director general of Ofii, the French office for immigration and of integration.

"Then it's in Paca, then we have a distribution in almost all the regions of France. We have around 10,000 who, it seems, are in employment in the catering industry in part ", he says to Europe 1.

Didier Leschi adds that between 200 and 250 new temporary protection issues have been granted every day for several weeks, but that around 5,000 refugees have, conversely, already left France to return to Ukraine.