Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters near the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, 29 July 2025. Photo: EPA/BONNIE CASH / POOL

US President Donald Trump has said that refugees from Ukraine who have sought refuge in the country since 2022 will be permitted to stay until the end of the war, the Kyiv Post reported on Wednesday.

Asked by a reporter in a brief exchange at the White House if he would allow Ukrainian refugees to remain until the conflict was over, he replied: “I think we will, yes. We have a lot of people who came in from Ukraine, and we’re working with them.”

Though the statement appears to have been made off the cuff, it should bring relief to Ukrainians in the US who have faced uncertainty about their status ever since the Trump administration took office, introducing a raft of tougher anti-immigration policies in the country as a whole.

In March, Reuters reported that the US authorities had plans to strip approximately 240,000 Ukrainian refugees who had arrived in the country since 2022 of their legal status. That move was understood to be part of the Trump administration’s efforts to strip some 1.8 million migrants of the legal status they obtained through humanitarian programmes launched under the Biden administration.

In April, the US administration inadvertently sent letters to some Ukrainian refugees, demanding that they leave the country, The Washington Post reported, though the authorities were quick to amend the error, reassuring immigrants that the notice was a mistake the same day.