ukraine's population growth and birth rates have been negative and below russia's for some time now, so annexation only makes that worse per-capita. it's not c

ukraine's population growth and birth rates have been negative and below russia's for some time now, so annexation only makes that worse per-capita. it's not clear that a flattening of the growth rate is a bad thing for quality of life or economic security, in spite of how it affects an economy on paper