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Kiev is a “ghost town”, says former adviser to the President of Ukraine.
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The birth rate of Ukraine is expected to drop to catastrophic levels in 2023 and lead to the country’s population dropping to 35 million in the coming years. This is a demographic crisis that Ukraine will find extremely difficult to escape from, even if the war was to end tomorrow.
“Next year will see a catastrophic drop in the birth rate, and there is a risk that by 2030 the population of Ukraine will drop to 35 million,” said Professor Ella Libanova, Academician-Secretary at The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Director of M.V. Ptukha (Institute for Demography and Social Studies).
She added that the main factor is the war as it contributes to a high mortality rate, stress, overload, poor nutrition, and a lack of medical care, all of which has an effect on reproduction and birth rates.
The expert noted that a Ukrainian woman would need to give birth to 2.13 – 2.15 children in her lifetime to maintain Ukraine’s current population of approximately 43.1 million. According to her, in 2021, the average birth rate in Ukraine was 1.1, and in 2022 it will be“even less”.
Libanova said that many of the people that have left Ukraine are “young women of active reproductive and working age, which means that they are not working in Ukraine today and not giving birth to children here.”
“It is clear that the purely quantitative effect is negative. But given the catastrophic decline of the economy due to the war, most likely these women would not have found work in Ukraine, and their presence would have increased pressure on the labor market,” the professor explained.
According to M.V. Ptukha, the population of Ukraine has decreased every year since 1994. The current population is estimated at 43.1 million, butit is recalled that in the 2001 All-Ukrainian Census, nearly 48 million people lived in Ukraine.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as of August 9, found that more than 10.5 million people fled Ukraine to go into neighbouring countries. Since then,more than 4.4 million people have returned to their homes.
Although many people have returned to their homes, Libanova stressed that Ukrainian women still abroad will be less incentivised to return “because each new month of their stay […] deepens their adaptation – their knowledge of the language improves, their children go to schools and universities, and mothers take on work.”
At the same time, according Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to the President of Ukraine, Kiev is becoming a ghost city due to the massive influx of people leaving.
“Rent in Kiev is falling and there is no longer demand. This means that migrants in Kiev are starting to leave, and there are 400,000 of them. Kiev is slowly becoming a ghost city thanks to Klitschko and all the people like Zelensky, Yermak and Shmyhal,” he said on his YouTube channel.
Soskin urged Ukrainians to leave towns and villages where production has stopped working and where there is no water, electricity, and heating systems.
“Manufacturing is going down, the economy is going down, banks are almost unable to hold out. Therefore, devaluation, inflation. Don’t linger in ghost towns,” he advised.
Following the Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, Russia began launching missile attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure. The targets of the retaliatory strikes were energy facilities, defence industry, military command, and communications. The knock-on effects of such strikes mean electricity cuts and other inconveniences to citizens.
Soskin also highlighted that Ukrainians are being taken off city streets and forced to the front lines, which points out that Zelensky is becoming an “undisguised dictator in the eyes of the people.”
“Zelensky says what is democracy, what is freedom, and that we do not have a dictatorship, but in fact we are a dictatorship,” he said, before revealing that he receives videos of Ukrainians being forced off the streets of Dnieper, Chernivtsi, Krivoy Rog and other cities so that they can fight on the front lines.
Along with Kiev becoming a “ghost city”, people being forced off the streets to fight on the front lines, and Ukrainian women in Europe unlikely to return to their country, Ukraine faces a significant demographic crisis that will only worsen with its deepening economic crisis.
According to the Washington Post, at a closed-door meeting at the National Bank of Ukraine in December, central bank officials warned that if Russia’s attacks intensified,“people could flee Ukraine in droves, taking their money with them and crash the national currency as they seek to exchange their Ukrainian hryvnia for euros or dollars.”
“The Ukrainian government could be left without international reserves to pay for critical imports and unable to meet its foreign debt obligations — a doomsday scenario known as a balance-of-payments crisis,” the report added.
With such a dire economic situation, it is only inevitable that Ukrainian couples will have less children, and much later in life, even if wartime factors are suddenly excluded. This is a crisis that Ukraine cannot avoid now, even if the war is to end tomorrow.
All of this for what ? To keep and clown dictator in power ? Jesus….
To “FUCK EU!”, AS VICTORIA NULAND SAID.
Every time Nuland’s name is mentioned, another 1000 ukranazis bite the dust.
I would come tomorrow and writte “Victoria Nuland” 10 millions times so the Earth will be clean of Nazis! 🎊
The dictator is just useful to contract illegitimate debts , sell his country to the Capital and making room for new “people”. In the end , “he will own nothing and he will be happy”…
Don’t even need a war to do so … look every country that were sold to the IMF by their corrupt officials.
Catastrophic would be to throw more children into that hell.
There is nothing “Catastrophic” in not breeding for the sake of exacerbating sufferings and misery.
The “experts” eat shit as usual, the covid scamdemia is proof enough.
That’s the least of Ukraine’s problems. Their country will be a heap of ruins worse than Syria, it will take decades and trillions of US dollars to even begin to return to a semblance of normalcy. Everything Psionist slaves touch they ruin.
‘Don’t poke the bear’, they said. ”WATCH ME SHAKE MY BUTT AND SHAKE DOWN US TAXPAYERS FOR 110 BILLION’, said zelensky. Age limits, term limits.
removed the population of Crimea, that of the 4 regions which joined Russia and all those who fled the country, the population of Ukraine is already at half, to say that the population will be 35 million in the next few years is false , it will be close to 0 if Russia continues to take territories and continue its meat grinder
O Ukronazis?
GOOD!
Party time!
True; the population of Ukraine at present is certainly below 30m already and probably as low as 25m. It was in rapid decline already well before the Maidan coup. A failed state in that and many other respects.
However, that’s nothing to be celebrated.
I see this as good news, less pests is always a good thing.
Poles are building roach motels all over Poland to accomodate them as we speak.
Klaus keeps Zelenskys balls in a glass on his nite stand and he gargles with them every morning to help keep his breath smelling like shit.
OK, so Ukraine becomes a wasteland — let’s call it a day… sign a peace treaty, let Russia have the Russian-oriented regions, create a neutral inhabited zone and let Poland and Romania have the western part.
this may happen so.
There may also be some “Ukrainian” part left , in a positive scenario a neutral state between East and West , which will give a new homeland for the desillusioned fanatics of today. But not very probable.
Hungary and Belarus can take parts also.
I’d like to see Moldova get one seaport, and Transnistra too if it becomes independent. Very few landlocked countries are prosperous. It will be funny to watch the Banderites adapt their ideology to put the blame on their new-gypsy predicament on everyone but their master race selves.
If these people who care bout the Ukraine had half a brain they would implore the Ukes to surrender. The Uke govt has been so corrupt for years, their economy is horrible.
With so many Jews in powerful positions they’re at least partially occupied by a foreign power anyway. Even if they weren’t the government/economy is so bad a different group of people running their show couldn’t be much worse.
Not to mention it’s hard to enjoy the benefits of a war victory if you’re dead or never born. That’s if they could win. Although nobody has ever accused flag waving normies of having really deep political/economic knowledge.
Unfortunately , since at least 2007 , the Budapester NATO summit , nobody has been asking the Ukrainians , what they want. But they have also partly chosen their future themselves. The idiotic brainlos enthusiasm for everything from the west , the dark history with nationalism and nazis like Bandera, their ill russophobic prejudice, ignorance and hatred , mixed with a great portion of fanatism – all this prevents a clear view what’s really good for the country where you live.
That’s their own responsibility for their country. But to be fair , they had not much choice.
I am sorry for the most of these people.
Actually, not just Russians, but Kazakhs, Buryats, Chechens, etc … fight against them
Yes. Zelensky had a 27 percent approval rating before the war started. They’re not taking opinion poles from the Ukes these days.
Now his competing parties have been outlawed. Same with opposition press. The Ukrainian democracy has been stolen from them.
So in other words, Ukraine was already in a deep crisis before the Maidan coup in 2014. Zelensky is a dictator, and an evil one at that. Even if this “war” ends, he will just simply flee to his mansion in Florida, and live high off the hog, while shooting lines of cocaine.
Sounds a lot like Scarface Tony Montana. You’re not suggesting he’ll end up that way, are you?
Merkel is a disgaced politician. She may end up joining him as Ma Barker Merkel.
That wouldn’t surprise me.
Ukraine – bankrupt morally, economically, demographically and militarily. So sad.
Ukraine will drop to 25 milion 15milion are fugetive and from that is coming back max a coouple of milion. Before the war fertility was 1,2 child like in Spain the lowest in
Europe. After war will fertility about the SouthKorea level 1,08 child.
I actually read South Korea had .8 children per woman. But at least they’re living in peace and have electricity unlike the Ukes.
The plan is to depopulate the Ukraine with war, dispersing refugees and making it a rump state. The Jews will come back after the war ends and they will breed like rabbits and create a second Israel.
Evidently the Kalgeri Plan is well under way. I hope we don’t see the New Jerusalem in Ukraine. Russia needs to press onward to victory and end this bloody conflict. Zionist freemason Zelensky is corrupt and evil even if only a dwarf actor and imperial puppet. The good Orthodox Christian people of Ukraine deserve better than to be ruled by a Kosher Cocaine Cabal fool in green fatigues larping the dictator role.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Taiwan, seems to have NOT gotten the message.
True, but for the most part it isn’t the Taiwanese people who are trying to provoke a conflict with China.
That would be puppet master uncle sam.
All done by design by the Ziomafia banking parasites and the corrupt stooges in the Ukrainian government and their totalitarian regime imposed in Ukraine since they were voted in as a result of the lies they told the people of Ukraine.
@the crunge. Yeah you are right in Seul is birth rate 0.63 child , i guess woman dont want to have children any more. In Eu is low rate 1,5 thats way is more and more older kontinet. But 0.63 wtf
It’s extinction level stuff.
Look up their 2021 population pyramid.
It’s on the Wikipedia article for South Korean demographics.
Theres a massive glut of people between 40 and 70, yet hardly any young people.
Idk about the rest of Europe. I recently went to Paris, and a town just outside called Roissy, it didn’t appear that there were too many ethnic French there.
Blacks, North Africans, Middle Easterners. The folks are so dark I’m surprised they don’t call it Frankenstan or Afranka.
The globalists need to replace white people with blacks to create a mixed race population perfectly adapted to a jewish world governement. Nikolas von courdehove kalergy, the founder of the pan europe (the former EU) has written a book in 1925 called “Praktischer Idealismus” in wich he explains how himself and the globalists institutions will take control of the world by mass migrations.
Quote : the man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals. (Page 22)
Ukrap hookers hooking throughout Urupp will not be laying their clients’ eggs and the legions of dead fascists in the mud or rump Ukrapland will be pushing up daisies in the spring and not making babies.
Rocket scientist one needs not be to figure out that Snorty Zs ongoing genocide of homo Urkanus means a reduction in future Ukrap naZi$.
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The Clown will go down in history as the man who literally destroyed Ukraine as a nation.
The midget faggot clown is literally trying to do everything what jew Hitler did.
Like for most hohols, for little Vladimir, Hitler was the childhood hero when growing up.
41-year-old actor Janusz Sheremet, born in 1981 from Dynów has been denazified in the Russian city of Artyomovsk. He was fighting along side the separatists against the Wagner Group. Sheremet was a member of the polish Neonazi group “Ruch Narodowy”. His fiancée is now back in Germany, where she works as a dishwasher in a Berlin restaurant. In a recent interview with the “Berliner Zeitung” she said “-Well, selberschuld, I told him not to hang out with Nazis”.
That Polish group is not Nazi but right-wing and monarchist.
Thanx to the Evil US Nato alliance. 👹
52.5 million – 1992
48 million – 2001
45 million approximate number as of March 2014
42.5 without Crimea
38 million excluding Crimea and LPR DPR as of February 2022
about 35 million without territories annexed to Russia as of December 2022, and taking into account 6 million refugees who did not return to Ukraine, we get an approximate figure of 29 million.
The homeless are almost extinct.
You Ukraine, out of the gene pool
It won’t just be a lack of men.
In Ukraine women are already being poisoned my feminism and crying about men refusing to comply with it, just as the elites wanted.
They want this for Russia as well, to drive a wedge between men and women by corrupting women and seducing them with unjust and unearned power to ruin relationships and marriages and the lives of men.
That will partly account for the birth rate decline.
Everywhere that progressivism is allowed to propagate, men are refusing to perpetuate the system.