Very well put. The challenge will be in rebuilding Ukraine, including reversing its population losses. Pre-war Ukraine, like all of Eastern Europe was already suffering from a demographic decline, with few women having babies. And now, an estimated five million of Ukraine's population has fled abroad, including a high % of women and children. Will these women and children voluntarily return to Ukraine? Those with fathers or husbands in Ukraine most likely, but IDK about the others. Here in Ontario, Canada there are thousands of Ukrainians refugees, and many have settled in nicely. My wife, a 3rd (and 4th) gen Ukrainian-Canadian tells me the newly arrived families were quickly embraced by the local Ukrainian diaspora, with help finding housing, jobs, etc. We don't give a toss for the Syrian and Sudanese refugees, but we're seemingly keeping our new Ukrainians. And then there's Ukraine's estimated eighty thousand KIA and over 140 thousand wounded fighting men that will need to be replaced and cared for. Lastly, there is the scourge of corruption that every country that escaped the USSR's shadow seems to struggle with.
