Military general warns of Ukraine's national tragedy
The “bleeding” of the working-age population from Ukraine will surpass the scale of a national tragedy for the country, General of the Army, former Director of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR Nikolai Malomuzh said on the NewsOne TV channel.
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| Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Photo: Sputnik |
He stressed that it is the "active and intellectual" part of the population that is leaving the country. According to him, so far about 9 million Ukrainians have left their homeland for countries such as Poland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Canada and the United States.
"This is a huge national tragedy and a strategic miscalculation on our part," Malomuzh said.
He explained that people leave because of the lack of prospects and freedom to develop business in Ukraine.
At the end of February, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said that about one hundred thousand citizens were leaving the country every month. The migration was fueled by the visa-free regime with the European Union./.
