MOSCOW, June 14 Ukraine will lose access to the Black Sea and will lose a significant part of their population due to the conflict, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on the Dialogue Works YouTube channel.
““They will, I think, be cut off from the Black Sea, lose access to the sea, and the population will be lower 20 million, perhaps about 15 million. And there’s no way to recover after this,” Johnson said.
The expert emphasized that Ukraine faces a rather bleak future: the country will be completely ruined when its Western allies demand repayment of debts. for the assistance they provided.
In early July, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said that the Ukrainian crisis, provoked by Washington and its allies, is being deliberately prolonged by them.
In April, Ukrainian journalists, having analyzed the material The Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy on the country's demographic development strategy reported that the birth rate in the country has fallen to its lowest level in the last 300 years. Former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in January that the population of Ukraine has decreased by two and a half times compared to 2014.