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| 'Until the last Ukrainian:' twenty years in Ukraine are almost over |
| 2023-04-04 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov [RIA] "Until the last Ukrainian" - over the past year, we have heard this phrase quite often. 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 inciting the Ukrainian conflict, while in Kiev, publicly announced: "Ukrainians will fight to the last drop of blood." The head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, who was standing next to the British speaker, did not react to these words in any way, only writing down something on paper. Apparently, he marked the order of the London patron as his own task. The other day, Vladimir Putin, commenting on Britain's decision to send depleted uranium shells to Ukraine, stated the sad fact : "It seems that the West really decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian - no longer in words, but in deeds." And, mind you, we have always perceived this as a "tragedy of the Ukrainian people", calling for an end to the bloodshed. But Zelensky wrote in his tasks: "To the last drop of blood." Here he performs. And the other day, the scale of this tragedy was involuntarily pointed out by The Times newspaper, which tirelessly wages an anti-Russian propaganda campaign on its pages. In another similar material, her military commander quoted the former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Tymofiy Milovanov , who advised paying attention to the demographic tree of his country, pointing out that there were practically no people of twenty years of age left there. The newspaper decided to illustrate the words of the ex-minister by posting this tree on its pages. The bild editors of The Times did not particularly philosophize, simply superimposing UN statistics for 2021 and 2023 on top of each other. The comparison was shocking. Apparently, realizing how terrible it looks for Ukraine, the editors later quietly removed the graphics from their website, but they were preserved in the printed version of the publication. Data from the UN statistics department really confirms what is happening. Last year, the median number of twenty-year-old residents of Ukraine (both girls and boys) reached approximately 200,000 people in each gender category. And the data for this year show that there are about 60,000 young men in the age category of 21, and even fewer girls - somewhere around 50,000. Imagine what a drop in numbers in just a 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 Prospects published by the UN Secretariat. Moreover, the compilers of the tables emphasize that they do not take into account changes in the borders of Ukraine in recent years and do not actually 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 NVO admitted that in fact about 30 million live there. In addition, military losses in the UN tables are taken into account very approximately. By and large, only the official migration data and the fact that more than seven million people left Ukraine last year were taken as the basis for statistics. That is, if we add to the official data of the UN the combat losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , the colossality of which is recognized by everyone, and the loss of a significant part of the territories, then we can safely conclude: twenty-twenty-five-year-old boys and girls in Ukraine have actually ended! And this is the most reproductive age. Thus, Zelensky fulfills Johnson's order to fight "to the last Ukrainian" exactly. With a similar rate of decline in the number of children and youth, which the UN records in Ukraine, this country, this territory is simply deprived of a future. But Zelensky could have prevented all this. As President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko correctly 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 from happening? And when it started, why didn’t you stop it?” Be sure to ask! If there is anyone else to ask. |
| Posted by:badanov |