/ world today news/ Ukraine’s losses in the SVO are huge. And mostly young people. Zelensky’s regime continues to crush human lives. The slogan “War to the last Ukrainian” has become a terrible reality…
Ukraine’s population decline began a long time ago. According to the Ukrainian economist Yevgeny Astakhov, in 1993 52.17 million people lived in the republic. As of January 1, 2022 the population has fallen to 34.5 million. This is indicated by the data of the State Statistical Office.
There were no epidemics, no natural disasters struck the country, no famine. Where did the people go? Some emigrated. The other part lived on the territory of Crimea and the lands of the DPR and LPR that had fallen from Ukraine. We must also consider the low birth rate and high death rate, the result of the ill-considered policies of the authorities in the fields of health, ecology and economy.
„The prospects for demographics in Ukraine are negative,” Kaza Astakhov. “Births, deaths and migration have already bottomed out in manageable decline and extraordinary and very effective measures will need to be taken today to reverse the trend.”
Just who will take “very effective measures”?!
Ella Libanova, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Demography and Social Research named after M.V. Ptuhi says he dreams of Ukraine with 35 million inhabitants by 2030. However, it is specified that this may not be the case: “The war continues and we are losing people due to excessive mortality. These are not only the dead, but also those who die of stress, overwork, improper nutrition and inadequate medical care. We don’t quite feel it yet. But 2023 it will be a year of catastrophic decline…”
The situation in Ukraine, including the demographic one, is of no interest to the authorities in Kyiv. In the West, they talk about the amount of weapons delivered to Ukraine, but they do not talk about the plight of the population, about the colossal losses that the country is suffering.
As a result of the mobilization that began, known as “mogilization”, hundreds of thousands of men, mostly young, went to the front. Some die in battle, others become invalids.
If we take into account the conservative estimates of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the losses are at least 160 thousand people. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, citing Israeli intelligence, reported 157,000 soldiers killed by Ukraine’s armed forces. The number of seriously wounded and prisoners is estimated at 300 thousand. Daily losses of personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine range from 400 to 2,000 people.
And the dance of death continues!
According to The Times, taken from a UN report, in 2021 there were 200,000 20-year-old young men and women in Ukraine. At the beginning of 2023 the picture changed dramatically: the number of boys was reduced to 60 thousand, girls to 50 thousand. The Times writes that this one “demographic regression of Ukrainian youth is a catastrophe for the nation”.
The decline in the number of twenty-year-olds is not only the result of military losses. Many left Ukraine, fleeing a foreign war. According to various estimates, more than 8 million people have left Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Then about a million and a half returned, but the country is still empty.
The easiest way was to leave the country for children, women and the elderly. But in the mass of those who left there were also young men of military age. The principle of overcoming the travel ban is simple: pay and go. Everything is steeped in corruption.
The Kiev elite conducts a criminal policy, depriving the people of Ukraine of a future, turning it into a boring territory where old people live, dwellers of ruins.
According to some estimates, the population of Ukraine will decrease to 22.5 million by the end of the XXI century. However, there is very little chance of a country called “Ukraine” surviving to this point.
Translation: EU
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