The war forced millions of Ukrainians to flee their homeland, and neighboring Poland became a new home for many of them. Eurostat figures put the figure of Ukrainians now settled in Poland at 900,000, and many of them, it appears, are putting down business roots.

"Since the start of the full-scale invasion, more than 8,000 limited liability companies with Ukrainian capital and over 50,000 individual entrepreneurs have been registered in Poland," Dariusz Szymczycha, the first vice president of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, told a forum organized by the Kyiv Bureau of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency.

At the end of 2023, every tenth new individual entrepreneur was Ukrainian.

Ukrainians most often start their businesses in Warsaw, where 9,406 companies have been established, while Krakow has 2,661, and Wroclaw 2,128.

Marek Belski, a member of the board of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, said that Ukrainian business in Poland has great prospects, while Andrzej Dykha, chairman of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, added that the priority for the Polish government is to support cooperation between small and medium-sized businesses of the two countries.

Large companies, he continued, can establish contacts independently, and infrastructure is being created for this purpose.