Ukraine’s Demographic Black Hole
Ukraine’s Demographic Black Hole – Academic
A professor from Kyiv’s Shevchenko University said in a recent interview that “hungry” Ukrainian women and “hungry for women” foreign peacekeepers would boost the country’s birth rate.
In an interview aired on YouTube, Nikita Vasylenko, Professor of Journalism at Kyiv’s National Shevchenko University really put the cat among the pigeons with his comments on one way that Ukraine could solve the problems of its demographic crisis.
Interviewed by pro-Russian commentator Alexander Shelest on his YouTube channel, Vasylenko said that when the war in Ukraine ends, the country is likely to see the arrival of thousands of “foreign peacekeepers.”
“You can imagine how this will solve our demographic problem. At least 40,000 men with money, hungry for women, not tested by the front, but raised on good European products. And hundreds of thousands of hungry Ukrainian women who did not manage to leave for one reason or another, whose men have either already been killed or maimed in the war,” Vasylenko said.
He went on to compare the post war situation Ukraine would face with that during the Second World War when the country was filled with German soldiers, referring to “many ‘Fritz’ [slang name for Germans] children, born from ‘Fritz fathers’.”
Although Vasylenko later backtracked on his comments and spoke out against the introduction of thousands of peacekeepers into Ukraine, the damage had already been done.