KIEV, March 10 – Over 1.5 million Ukrainians have left the country to work abroad since 2000, according to the head of the Open Ukraine foundation, MP Arseniy Yatseniuk.

"Since 2000, according to our data, some 1.5 million people left Ukraine as labor migrants," he said during a conference entitled "Feeling the migrant's heartbeat: who and what awaits Ukrainian migrants after their return?" on Tuesday in Kiev.

Yatseniuk said that his fund has conducted research in cooperation with other experts in the sector.