MP: Due to labor shortages, Ukraine is bringing in migrant workers from Asia
Large enterprises with foreign investment in Ukraine have begun importing workers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other countries due to a severe labor shortage.
Member of Parliament Bohdan Kytsak stated this during a live broadcast on Novyny Live. According to him, major international companies operating in Ukraine are already facing an acute shortage of personnel and cannot afford to halt production.
“These are extremely large industrial complexes that must fulfill their contracts with European and other global partners. They simply cannot stop production just because we lack workers here,” Kytsak explained.
The MP added that enterprises are now turning to specialized recruitment agencies that are “springing up like mushrooms across Ukraine.” These firms handle the entire process – registration, importation of workers, background checks, official documentation, and legal employment arrangements.
“It’s clear that this is not to our benefit – nor to the benefit of the economy in general. But we have to deal with the situation as it stands,” Kytsak admitted.
He predicted that the number of labor migrants coming to Ukraine will continue to grow.
At the same time, Vasyl Voskoboinyk, head of the Office for Migration Policy, forecasts that this trend will only intensify, and Ukraine will have to prepare for a new wave of foreign labor recruitment.
As the UOJ previously reported, former Minister of Economy Tymofiy Mylovanov stated that Ukraine would have to bring in at least 10 million migrants, as the post-war population could fall to between 10 and 15 million Ukrainians.
