Ukraine stares down the barrel of population collapse

Reuters ^ | December 4, 2025 | Max Hunder

[MinorityRepublican]

While many Ukrainian hospitals are struggling to cope with the endless influx of wounded, a maternity ward in the western town of Hoshcha lies eerily deserted. The hospital in Hoshcha has recorded just 139 births so far this year, down from 164 in 2024, and a far cry from just over a decade ago when more than 400 babies were born every year, according to local authorities. "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."

Authorities are wrestling with a crucial question as Ukraine barrels towards a demographic disaster: Once the war ends, who will be left to rebuild the shattered country? Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and wounded in almost four years of fighting, while millions more have fled the country and births are drying up.

Hoshcha, a small town of about 5,000 people, is hundreds of miles from the nearest front but is nonetheless facing the full force of the population crisis. In the nearby village of Sadove, a school that once taught more than 200 pupils has been shut down. "Two years ago, we were forced to close this institution. Why? Because there were only nine children there," Mykola Panchuk, head of Hoshcha's town council, told Reuters.

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TOPICS: Ukraine
KEYWORDS: concerntroll; putinthewarpig; russiansuicide; vladtheimploder

[PGR88]

Ukraine's population.... estimates the figure will drop to 25 million by 2051.

Nonsense

Ukraine's last census in 2001 had it at 48 million. It left the Soviet Union with about 52 million.

Ukraine has had the lowest birth rate and highest abortion rate in Europe (and the world) for 35 years. The EU itself said that it received 300k-400k Ukrainian migrants per year (before 2022)

In 2014 it lost Crimea

Since 2022, 8-10 million people have left Ukraine. The majority went West, while 1-2 million have gone to Russia.

It is losing the Donbas.

Some estimates say that 1.5 million have been killed.

What remains of Ukraine today is already well below 20 million

[PGR88]

Davos globalists are telling us they preparing to flood Ukraine with 3rd world migrants, you know, to help rebuild, and such.

[Pocketdoor]

Are they still exporting brides? Asking for a friend.

[nickcarraway]

Hasn’t been Putin been replacing his guys with Muslims? Russia has a very low birth rate, and by far the highest suicide rate for a country anywhere near it’s size.

[irishjuggler]

“Are they still exporting brides? Asking for a friend.”

LOL. If your friend finds a looker, ask her if she has any sisters.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "....a maternity ward in the western town of Hoshcha lies eerily deserted."

A quick look ( Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ) showed that town had a 2011 population of 5,360.

[Dr. Franklin]

Are they still exporting brides? Asking for a friend.

Ukrainian women were known to be the worst of scammers of the former USSR. Many pretended to what to marry a Western man, but their sincerity was highly suspect.

[Redcitizen]

[Strangelove’s plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio]
General “Buck” Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sounds like a good place for Somalians. Grift abounding.

Move 'em on out!

[Kudsman]

Send in the Hutterites.