Every month of war means a great loss of people for Ukraine, and we are not talking about the dead,
Ukraine is gradually losing those citizens who went abroad as refugees but planned to return.
Each additional month of war means demographic losses for Ukraine. And we are not talking about the dead, but about the millions of those who will never return from abroad. Ella Libanova, director of the Ptukhi Institute of Demography and Social Research, spoke about this in a commentary to CNN.
She emphasized that more and more Ukrainian refugees are getting used to life abroad and eventually lose the desire to return to Ukraine at all. In addition, every month of war means additional destruction, so there are more people who simply have nowhere to return.
According to the pessimistic scenario, the demographer says, the end of the war could provoke another wave…