Go or die: Putin faced the problem because of the war -solved war in Ukraine - WSJ

The event confirms the death of at least 150,000 Russians at the front. Putin himself called the fertility raising the national priority. He announced the Year of the Family and introduced subsidies for large parents. It is reported that the largest growth of the population of the Russian Federation coincides with the year of annexation of Crimea. Expert Nicholas Ebibstadt called the occupation "the most successful demographic program of the Kremlin.

" According to analysts, since the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine, until July 2023, Russia has left approximately 920 thousand citizens. Many of them are educated professionals in various fields. According to official statistics in 2022, about 668 thousand Russians (anti -record since 1992) left the Russian Federation, and in 2023 - about 450 thousand. "The consequences of this are obvious in the lack of labor to meet the battlefield.

Putin reorients most of the economy for the production of tanks, rockets and mortars. Last year, he said that military production hindered a lack of specialists," the media said. Demographers predict that the war in Ukraine can provoke "death from despair" in the Russian Federation, for example, as a result of alcoholism. In 2022, Putin himself stated that the death at the front was more honored than death from alcoholism. At the same time, according to statistics for 2023, about 1.

26 million children were born in Russia. Journalists stressed that this is the smallest indicator in the last 20 years. In temporary occupied Crimea and in several regions of the Russian Federation, private clinics stopped abortion. It is reported that the authorities took care of it. In addition, the State Duma considers the possibility of a complete ban on abortion by private doctors, and Putin himself called abortions a "topical problem".