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MiTasol said:
Followed by Poland and every other USSR member.
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Poland in particular would be a very tough nut for Russia to crack.

On a different topic I notice that the demographics issue in Russia is getting much worse.
Leading Demographer Alexei Raksha, The Moscow Times writes, claims that only between 293,000 to 294,000 children were born in Russia in the first quarter of 2025, with February 2025 being the worst month in over 200 years. He also stated that if this continues then the population of Russia would fall by approx. 500,000 people a year.

The Feb 2025 number was about 7.5% down on Feb 2024 which in itself was a very low number.

It should be noted that the UN estimates are much worse than those in the Moscow Times. In 2021 the Natural population declined with the death rate being almost double the birth rate. It was a large net migration that limited the damage. This was of course before the war which must have had a significant impact on the number of people wanting to migrate to Russia.
 
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And immediately after that... Vice Chancellor has disagreed.
"Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil has objected to the impression that there is a change of course in the range restriction for weapons delivered to Ukraine by Germany. "As far as reach is concerned, I will say that there is no new agreement that goes beyond what the previous government has made," said the SPD politician at a press conference in Berlin."

Klingbeil widerspricht Kurswechsel bei Reichweitenbeschränkung für Ukraine

Kanzler Merz verkündet das Ende der Reichweitenbeschränkung bei Waffenlieferungen für Kiew. Das stößt vor allem auf Kritik aus Moskau, aber auch aus den Reihen von SPD und Linken in Deutschland. Mit Vizekanzler Klingbeil scheint Merz' Vorstoß nicht abgesprochen zu sein.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — "Everything will be all right."

Ukrainian soldier Serhii Hryhoriev said this so often during brief phone calls from the front that his wife and two daughters took it to heart. His younger daughter, Oksana, tattooed the phrase on her wrist as a talisman.

Even after Hryhoriev was captured by the Russian army in 2022, his anxious family clung to the belief that he would ultimately be OK. After all, Russia is bound by international law to protect prisoners of war.

When Hryhoriev finally came home, though, it was in a body bag.

A Russian death certificate said the 59-year-old died of a stroke. But a Ukrainian autopsy and a former POW who was detained with him tell a different story about how he died – one of violence and medical neglect at the hands of his captors.

Hryhoriev is one of more than 200 Ukrainian POWs who have died while imprisoned since Russia's full-scale invasion three years ago. Abuse inside Russian prisons was likely a contributing factor in many of these deaths, according to officials from human rights groups, the U.N., the Ukrainian government and a Ukrainian medical examiner who has performed dozens of POW autopsies.

The officials say the prison death toll adds to evidence that Russia is systematically brutalizing captured soldiers. They say forensic discrepancies like Hryhoriev's, and the repatriation of bodies that are mutilated and decomposed, point to an effort to cover up alleged torture, starvation and poor health care at dozens of prisons and detention centers across Russia and occupied Ukraine.

Russian authorities did not respond to requests for comment. They have previously accused Ukraine of mistreating Russian POWs — allegations the U.N. has partially backed up, though it says Ukraine's violations are far less common and severe than what Russia is accused of.

 
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