Ukrainians in Russia make up the largest single diaspora group of the Ukrainian people. As of 2010, 1.9 million Ukrainians live in Russia, representing over 1.4% of the total population of the Russian Federation and comprising the third-largest ethnic group after ethnic Russians and Tatars. An estimated 340,000 people born in Ukraine, mostly young people, permanently settle legally in Russia each year. In February 2014, there were 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens in the territory of Russia, two-thirds of the labour migrants. However, after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the start of the War in Donbas, the number had risen to 2.5 million as of December 2014. Over 420,000 asylum-seekers from Ukraine had registered in Russia as of November 2017.