The largest refugee group in Poland are people from the former Soviet Union; each year since 2000 this group forms between 40–90% of the individuals applying for refugee in Poland; out of those, the largest group are the Chechens, who started applying for it at the start of the 21st century, following the Chechen Civil War. It is estimated there may be about 20,000 Chechens in Poland as of mid-2010s. The second largest group are the Ukrainians, who started applying for that status following the Ukrainian-Russian conflict; approximately 1,000 to 2,000 or more Ukrainians have been applying for the stay in Poland since the onset of that conflict. Third largest group from that region applying for stay in Poland are people from Georgia.