The Ukraine has Suffered Massive Population Loss Since War Began

Well, if everyone is dead, it’s time to send in the woman.

That will work great.

Women are exactly like men except they are much more intelligent and competent, so it’s very easy for them to fight a war. This is especially true since Russia is too sexist and homophobic to use woman soldiers.

Reuters:

Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a Geneva news conference, Florence Bauer, Eastern Europe head at the U.N. Population Fund, said the invasion in February 2022 had turned an already difficult demographic situation into something more severe.

“The birth rate plummeted and is currently at around one child per woman, which is one of the lowest in the world,” she said. It takes a fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman to maintain a stable population.

It wasn’t doing very well even before

Ukraine, which had a population of over 50 million when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, has, like almost all its Eastern European and Central Asian neighbours, undergone severe population decline. In 2021, the last year before Russia’s full-scale invasion it had a population of about 40 million.

Bauer said that a precise accounting for the impact of the war on Ukraine’s population would have to wait until after the conflict ended when a full census could finally be carried out.

The immediate impact was on regions that were all-but depopulated, villages with only old people left, and couples unable to start families, she said.

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The largest chunk of Ukraine’s population decline was accounted for by the 6.7 million refugees now living abroad, primarily in Europe. War deaths were also a factor.

“It’s difficult to have exact numbers, but estimates range around tens of thousands of casualties,” she said.

It’s nuts they’re still claiming “tens of thousands.” That doesn’t even say deaths, it says “casualties.” Though it’s possible that woman doesn’t know the difference. A lot of people don’t seem to know the difference.

Even people who know the definition don’t know that it includes deserters.

Wikipedia:

A casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion.

Every aligned expert I’ve heard says “over 600,000 deaths” and “over one million casualties” now. It’s one thing to fudge the numbers, but doing fewer than 10% when real estimates are floating around just makes you look scummy.

It’s also many more than 6.7 million “refugees.” There are more than that in Poland alone, and they are all over Europe now.

Snake Baker contributed to this article.