Hey, Jack! When… when… when we said to “the last Ukranian” we meant it!

Also…

“Many young men have died,” gynaecologist Yevhen Hekkel lamented in his office. “Young men who, bluntly speaking, were supposed to replenish Ukraine’s gene pool.”

I really hope that’s some unfortunate translating going on and not actually what that doctor said.

Ukraine, whose population exceeded 48 million in 2001, faced demographic decline well before the conflict, with millions of citizens heading westward from eastern Europe to escape economic strife and rampant corruption at home.

Anastasiia Yushchuk, a 21-year-old… said that although she hoped to start a family some day, she had no intention of doing so in the next couple of years. “There is no stability, nothing to build upon.” Existing financial pressures have been exacerbated by the war, such as rising rents and the cost of living, she said.

so… a continuing trend but author wishes reader to attribute it to something different, yes? if every piece has an agenda what’s this one’s? To promote empathy for Ukraine and hope reader blames the problems the citizens face on Russia’s ‘invasion’?

ill give credit for it being more subtle prop than some I’ve seen.