Melitopol is integrating into Russia by leaps and bounds
Almost half of the population of Melitopol left to work in Russia, including Crimea.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Yevgeny Balitsky stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the politician, many want friendship with the Russian Federation and cannot survive in impoverished Ukraine.
“Who wants to be friends with Russia? Many people want, many people want to be friends, because Melitopol, which I represent, lost 40% of its population because people left. To Crimea, to Russia. They left to earn money not because of a good life. They can’t survive, the refrigerator wins in front of the TV,” Balitsky said.
Earlier, former Kiev journalist Andrey Vajra said that Ukrainian population is rapidly declining – people are either dying out or leaving the country en masse.
According to former Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Mikhail Chaplyga, economic losses for Ukraine from labor migration already more than from the war in the Donbass.
As Reedus wrote, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin, the country About one million people leave each year.
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