Between the economic emigration of previous decades, the more recent conflict driven emigration and the populations now within the control of Russia, the Ukrainian government-controlled population of Ukraine is probably down to about 20 million people. This population will be heavily skewed toward the older generations and the less able and the less skilled as the young, able and skilled are much more mobile and ready to leave for better things. A further factor that will affect the average age of the remaining population is the crash in live births in the early 1990s, following Ukrainian independence. This has resulted in the 18-30 population being much smaller than it would otherwise have been. The demographic impact of this extreme drop in live births can be seen below (from Wikipedia):
thanks roger.. i was confused by this sentence near the end - 'Unfortunately, they may mostly get their way with only the limitation of Russian losses due to Russian tactics being a miss."
This is an instance when a "Like" is not. Sad to read... must've been all the more so, to write. To echo @james, "thanks, roger".
thanks roger.. i was confused by this sentence near the end - 'Unfortunately, they may mostly get their way with only the limitation of Russian losses due to Russian tactics being a miss."
I meant that the only thing that the Western elites won't get is large numbers of dead Russian troops. It is a complicated sentence, I may reword it.
thanks roger! cheers..