/ world today news/ “To the last Ukrainian” – in the past year we heard this phrase quite often. We recall that on the eve of the special operation, on February 1 last year, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who played a significant role in igniting the Ukrainian conflict while in Kiev, publicly announced: “Ukrainians will fight to the last drop of blood.” The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, who was standing next to the British guest, did not react in any way to these words, but only wrote something down on paper. Apparently, he noted the order of the London patron as his task.
The other day, Vladimir Putin, commenting on Britain’s decision to send depleted uranium projectiles to Ukraine, stated the sad fact: “It seems that the West has really decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian – no longer in words, but in deeds.” And, note, we have always seen this as a “tragedy of the Ukrainian people”, calling for an end to the bloodshed. But Zelensky reads in his assignments: “To the last drop of blood.” Here he performs.
And the other day, the scale of this tragedy was inadvertently pointed out by the Times newspaper, which tirelessly runs an anti-Russian propaganda campaign in its pages. In another similar article, her military correspondent quotes former Ukrainian economy minister Timofey Milovanov, who advises paying attention to his country’s demographic tree, pointing out that there are virtually no people in their twenties left.
The newspaper decided to illustrate the words of the former minister by publishing this tree on its pages. The editors responsible for the pictures at The Times weren’t really philosophizing, they just superimposed the UN statistics for 2021 and 2023 on top of each other. The comparison was shocking. Apparently realizing how terrible Ukraine looked, the editors later quietly removed the graphics from their website, but they were retained in the print version of the publication.
Data from the United Nations Statistics Division indeed confirms what is happening. Last year, the average number of twenty-year-old residents of Ukraine (both girls and boys) reached approximately 200,000 people in each gender category. And this year’s data shows that there are about 60,000 21-year-olds, and even fewer girls – somewhere around 50,000. Imagine the drop in numbers in just one year!
It is worth emphasizing that we are not talking about numbers taken from the ceiling. The table refers to official statistics from the annual world population projections published by the UN Secretariat. In addition, the compilers of the tables emphasize that they do not take into account changes in the borders of Ukraine in recent years and, in fact, do not take into account military losses. That is, much more inflated indicators of the pre-war population of Ukraine were taken as a basis – more than 40 million people, although even Ukrainian officials even before the SVO admitted that in fact about 30 million lived there.
In addition, military losses in the UN tables are taken into account very approximately. In general, only official data on migration and the fact that more than seven million people left Ukraine last year were taken as a basis for statistics. That is, if we add to the official data of the UN the combat losses of the ASU, the colossal nature of which is recognized by everyone, and the loss of a significant part of the territories, then we can safely conclude: the twenty-twenty-five-year-old boys and girls in Ukraine are actually over! And this is the most reproductive age.
Thus, Zelensky is exactly fulfilling Johnson’s vow to fight “to the last Ukrainian”. With similar rates of decline in the number of children and youth that the UN registers in Ukraine, this country, this territory is simply deprived of a future. But Zelensky could have prevented all this.
As Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko rightly noted on Friday, one day Zelensky will be asked: “Why didn’t you prevent the war? Why didn’t you do everything to prevent this war? And when you started it, why didn’t you stop it?” Be sure to ask him! If there is anyone else to ask.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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